Flatness conjecture for stable nonlocal minimal hypercones in dimensions three through seven

Let s(0,1)s\in(0,1), and consider stable ss-minimal hypercones in Rn{0}\mathbb{R}^n\setminus\{0\}. Flatness conjecture. For every integer nn with 3n73\leqslant n\leqslant 7, there exists s(0,1)s_*\in(0,1) such that, for every s(s,1)s\in(s_*,1), the only stable ss-minimal hypercones in Rn{0}\mathbb{R}^n\setminus\{0\} are hyperplanes.

This is the nonlocal analogue of the classical flatness result for stable minimal cones in dimensions at most seven, contrasted with the Simons-cone counterexample in dimension eight. Establishing this classification would, via the stated implication for stable hypersurfaces, yield flatness of stable ss-minimal hypersurfaces of class C2C^2 in these dimensions for ss sufficiently close to one.

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Hardy Chan, Serena Dipierro, Joaquim Serra and Enrico Valdinoci, “Nonlocal approximation of minimal surfaces: optimal estimates from stability”, arXiv:2308.06328 (2025).

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