Transverse Singularities of Minimal Two-Valued Graphs in Arbitrary Codimension

Abstract

We prove some epsilon regularity results for n-dimensional minimal two-valued Lipschitz graphs. The main theorems imply uniqueness of tangent cones and regularity of the singular set in a neighbourhood of any point at which at least one tangent cone is equal to a pair of transversely intersecting multiplicity one n-dimensional planes, and in a neighbourhood of any point at which at which at least one tangent cone is equal to a union of four distinct multiplicity one n-dimensional half-planes that meet along an (n-1) - dimensional axis. The key ingredient is a new Excess Improvement Lemma obtained via a blow-up method (inspired by the work of L. Simon on the singularities of `multiplicity one' classes of minimal submanifolds) and which can be iterated unconditionally. We also show that any tangent cone to an n-dimensional minimal two-valued Lipschitz graph that is translation invariant along an (n-1) or (n-2)- dimensional subspace is indeed a cone of one of the two aforementioned forms, which yields a global decomposition result for the singular set