The Structure of Stable Codimension One Integral Varifolds near Classical Cones of Density 5/2

Abstract

We prove a multi-valued $C^{1,\alpha }$ regularity theorem for the varifolds in the class ${\mathcal{S}}_2$ (i.e., stable codimension one stationary integral $n$-varifolds admitting no triple junction classical singularities) which are sufficiently close to a stationary integral cone comprised of 5 half-hyperplanes (counted with multiplicity) meeting along a common axis. Such a result is the first of its kind for non-flat cones of higher (i.e. $>1$) multiplicity when branch points are present in the nearby varifolds. For such varifolds, this completes the analysis of the singular set in the region where the density is $<3$, up to a set which is countably $(n-2)$-rectifiable. Our methods develop the blow-up arguments in \cite{simoncylindrical} and \cite{wickstable}. One key new ingredient of our work is needing to inductively perform successively finer blow-up procedures in order to show that a certain $\epsilon$-regularity property holds at the blow-up level; this is then used to prove a $C^{1,\alpha }$ boundary regularity theory for two-valued $C^{1,\alpha }$ harmonic functions which arise as blow-ups of sequences of such varifolds, the argument for which is carried out in the accompanying work \cite{minter2021}.

112 pages, comments welcome (v2: changes to presentation of numerous sections)