White's generic regularity conjecture for area-minimizing cycles
Let be a Riemannian manifold and let a homologically area-minimizing cycle in have a singular set. White's generic regularity conjecture. Singularities in a homologically area-minimizing cycle in a Riemannian manifold should disappear after a generic perturbation of the metric. This question concerns whether generic metrics eliminate singularities from area-minimizing representatives when smooth representatives are not excluded by topology. It is known for embedded geodesics and for -dimensional area-minimizing submanifolds of arbitrary codimension, while the general question remains open.
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Primary source
Zhenhua Liu, “Area-minimizing submanifolds are not generically smooth, except for geodesics, minimal surfaces, and minimal hypersurfaces”, arXiv:2607.24735 (2026).
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