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20132026
most citedSome singular minimizers in low dimensions in the calculus of variations

32 citations · 78 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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32 papers

math.AP2026

Regularity for the prescribed vertical mean curvature system in the plane

Jonas Hirsch, Connor Mooney, Riccardo Tione

We prove everywhere regularity for Lipschitz solutions to the prescribed vertical mean curvature system in the plane, where the codimension is arbitrary and the mean curvature is i…

astro-ph.HE2026

A Multiwavelength Study of a Long-Duration VHE Flare from BL Lacertae with VERITAS

Atreya Acharyya, Avery Archer, Priyadarshini Bangale +72

We report the first observations of a long-duration very-high-energy (VHE; GeV) flare from BL Lacertae (VER J2202+422), taken with the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Te…

math.AP2023

On the Lawson-Osserman conjecture

Jonas Hirsch, Connor Mooney, Riccardo Tione

We prove that if is a Lipschitz critical point of the area functional with respect to outer variations, then is smooth.…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 5 cited

A VERITAS/Breakthrough Listen Search for Optical Technosignatures

Atreya Acharyya, Colin Adams, Avery Archer +65

The Breakthrough Listen Initiative is conducting a program using multiple telescopes around the world to search for "technosignatures": artificial transmitters of extraterrestrial…

math.AP2023

Sobolev regularity for optimal transport maps of non-convex planar domains

Connor Mooney, Arghya Rakshit

We prove a sharp global estimate for potentials of optimal transport maps that take a certain class of non-convex planar domains to convex ones.

astro-ph.HE2023★ 9 cited

VERITAS discovery of very high energy gamma-ray emission from S3 1227+25 and multiwavelength observations

Atreya Acharyya, Colin Adams, Avery Archer +68

We report the detection of very high energy gamma-ray emission from the blazar S3 1227+25 (VER J1230+253) with the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS)…

math.AP2023

Bifurcation of homogenization and nonhomogenization of the curvature G-equation with shear flows

Hiroyoshi Mitake, Connor Mooney, Hung V. Tran +2

The level-set curvature G-equation, a well-known model in turbulent combustion, has the following form $G_t + \left(1-d\, \mathrm{dvi}\left({\frac{DG}{|DG|}}\right)\right)_+|DG|+V(…

math.AP2023

Non solutions to the special Lagrangian equation

Connor Mooney, Ovidiu Savin

We construct viscosity solutions to the special Lagrangian equation that are Lipschitz but not .

math.AP2022

The anisotropic Bernstein problem

Connor Mooney, Yang Yang

We construct nonlinear entire anisotropic minimal graphs over , completing the solution to the anisotropic Bernstein problem. The examples we construct have a variety…

math.AP2022

Gradient estimates for the Lagrangian mean curvature equation with critical and supercritical phase

Arunima Bhattacharya, Connor Mooney, Ravi Shankar

In this paper, we prove interior gradient estimates for the Lagrangian mean curvature equation, if the Lagrangian phase is critical and supercritical and . Combined with the…

math.AP2022

Singular structures in solutions to the Monge-Ampère equation with point masses

Connor Mooney, Arghya Rakshit

We construct new examples of Monge-Ampère metrics with polyhedral singular structures, motivated by problems related to the optimal transport of point masses and to mirror symmetry…

math.AP2022

Homogeneous functions with nowhere vanishing Hessian determinant

Connor Mooney

We prove that functions that are homogeneous of degree on and have nowhere vanishing Hessian determinant cannot change sign.

math.AP2021

Hilbert's problem revisited

Connor Mooney

In this survey article we revisit Hilbert's problem concerning the regularity of minimizers of variational integrals. We first discuss the classical theory (that i…

math.AP2021

A proof by foliation that Lawson's cones are -minimizing

Connor Mooney, Yang Yang

We give a proof by foliation that the cones over minimize parametric elliptic functionals for each . We also analyze the behavior a…

math.AP2020

Strict -convexity of convex solutions to the quadratic Hessian equation

Connor Mooney

We prove that convex viscosity solutions to the quadratic Hessian inequality are strictly -convex. As a consequence we obtain short proofs of smoothness and i…

math.AP2020

Solutions to the Monge-Ampère equation with polyhedral and Y-shaped singularities

Connor Mooney

We construct convex functions on and that are smooth solutions to the Monge-Ampère equation away from compact one-dimensional singular…

math.AP2019

Entire solutions to equations of minimal surface type in six dimensions

Connor Mooney

We construct nonlinear entire solutions in to equations of minimal surface type that correspond to parametric elliptic functionals.

math.AP2019

Minimizers of convex functionals with small degeneracy set

Connor Mooney

We study the question whether Lipschitz minimizers of in are when is strictly convex. Building on work of De Silva-Savin, we confirm…

math.AP2019★ 2 cited

Sharpening the triangle inequality: envelopes between and spaces

Paata Ivanisvili, Connor Mooney

Motivated by the inequality , Carbery (2006) raised the question what is the "right" analogue of this estimate in $L^{…

math.AP2018

A proof of the Krylov-Safonov theorem without localization

Connor Mooney

The Krylov-Safonov theorem says that solutions to non-divergence uniformly elliptic equations with rough coefficients are Hölder continuous. The proof combines a basic measure esti…

math.AP2018

Regularity results for the equation

Connor Mooney, Ovidiu Savin

We study the equation in . Our results include an interior estimate, classical solvability of the Dirichlet problem, and the existence of non…

math.AP2018

Singularities of complex-valued solutions to linear parabolic equations

Connor Mooney

We construct examples of blowup from smooth data for complex-valued solutions to linear uniformly parabolic equations in dimension , which are exactly as irregular as par…

math.AP2017★ 1 cited

An obstacle problem for conical deformations of thin elastic sheets

Alessio Figalli, Connor Mooney

A developable cone ("d-cone") is the shape made by an elastic sheet when it is pressed at its center into a hollow cylinder by a distance . Starting from a nonlinear model depen…

math.AP2017★ 5 cited

Dimension of the minimum set for the real and complex Monge-Ampère equations in critical Sobolev spaces

Tristan C. Collins, Connor Mooney

We prove that the zero set of a nonnegative plurisubharmonic function that solves in and is in $W^{2, \frac{n(n-k)}{k}…