Lipschitz structure conjecture for branch points of minimizers

Let uu be a minimizer of the functional in on some open set ΩRn\Omega\subset\mathbb R^n, and let ΓBP(u)\Gamma_{\mathrm{BP}}(u) denote its branch-point set. For a relatively compact set DΩD\Subset\Omega, consider DΓBP(u)D\cap\Gamma_{\mathrm{BP}}(u). Branch-point structure conjecture. The set DΓBP(u)D\cap\Gamma_{\mathrm{BP}}(u) is locally contained in finitely many Lipschitz (n2)(n-2)-dimensional submanifolds. This conjecture proposes an analogue of the local structure known for singular sets of area-minimizing surfaces; the source gives no resolution, so the assertion remains open.

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Guy David, Max Engelstein, Mariana Smit Vega Garcia and Tatiana Toro, “Branch Points for (Almost-)Minimizers of Two-Phase Free Boundary Problems”, arXiv:2204.05367 (2022).

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