Rigidity of Euclidean Minimal Hypersurfaces under Nonuniform Diagonal Dilations

Abstract

Let $n\ge3$ and $D_t=\operatorname{diag}(t^{g_1},\ldots,t^{g_n})$ be a positive diagonal dilation family. We study connected embedded Euclidean hypersurfaces whose diagonal images are minimal. The level-set minimality operator splits into coefficients indexed by the pair sums $g_i+g_j$. Under pair-sum nonresonance, minimality at only $\binom n2$ distinct dilation parameters forces all pair coefficients to vanish. A dimension-reduction argument then shows, without any hypothesis on the coordinate components of the normal, that the second fundamental form vanishes identically. This yields an affine characterization. Repeated-weight helicoidal examples in every dimension and a resonant quadratic cone show that curvature cancellation can survive in genuinely nonuniform families. An application gives a finite-output-level rigidity criterion and an explicit representation for weighted-homogeneous production functions with minimal isoquants.