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Fine properties of branch point singularities: Two-valued harmonic functions

Brian Krummel·Neshan Wickramasekera
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In the 1980's, Almgren developed a theory of multi-valued Dirichlet energy minimizing functions on $n$ dimensional domains and used it, in an essential way, to bound the Hausdorff dimension of the singular sets of area minimizing rectifiable currents of dimension $n$ and codimension $\geq 2$. Recent work of the second author shows that two-valued $C^{1, μ}$ harmonic functions on $n$ dimensional domains, which are typically-non-minimizing stationary points of Dirichlet energy, play an essential role in the study of multiplicity 2 branch points of stable codimension 1 rectifiable currents of dimension $n$. In all of these cases (of multi-valued harmonic functions and minimal currents), it is known that the branch sets have Hausdorff dimension $\leq n-2.$ In this paper we initiate a study of the local structure of branch sets. We show that the branch set of a two-valued Dirichlet energy minimizing function or a two-valued $C^{1, μ}$ harmonic function, in each closed ball of its domain, is either empty or has positive $(n-2)$-dimensional Hausdorff measure and is equal to the union of a finite number of locally compact, locally $(n-2)$-rectifiable sets. Our method is inspired by the work of L. Simon on the structure of singularities of minimal submanifolds in compact, multiplicity 1 classes.

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Brian Krummel, Neshan Wickramasekera. 2013-11-04. Fine properties of branch point singularities: Two-valued harmonic functions. https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.0923

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