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Department of Mathematics,
University of California San Diego

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Math 258: Seminar in Differential Geometry

Dr. Gregory Parker

Stanford University

Families of non-product minimal submanifolds with cylindrical tangent cones

Abstract:

The study of singularities of minimal submanifolds has a long history, with isolated singularities being the best understood case. The next simplest case is that of minimal submanifolds with families with singularities locally modeled on the product of an isolated conical singularity and a Euclidean space — such submanifolds are said to have cylindrical tangent cones at these singularities. Despite work in many contexts on minimal submanifolds with such singularities, the only known explicit examples at present are global products or involve extra structure (e.g. Kahler subvarieties). In this talk, I will describe a method for constructing infinite-dimensional families of non-product minimal submanifolds in arbitrary codimension whose singular set is itself an analytic submanifold. The construction uses techniques from the analysis of singular elliptic operators and Nash-Moser theory. This talk is based on joint work with Rafe Mazzeo.

Hosts: Luca Spolaor and Davide Parise

May 1, 2025

1:00 PM

APM B412

Research Areas

Geometric Analysis

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