Uniqueness of certain cylindrical tangent cones

Abstract

We show that the cylindrical tangent cone $C\times \mathbf{R}$ for an area-minimizing hypersurface is unique, where $C$ is the Simons cone $C_S= C(S^3\times S^3)$. Previously Simon proved a uniqueness result for cylindrical tangent cones that applies to a large class of cones $C$, however not to the Simons cone. The main new difficulty is that the cylindrical cone $C_S\times \mathbf{R}$ is not integrable, and we need to develop a suitable replacement for Simon's infinite dimensional Lojasiewicz inequality in the setting of tangent cones with non-isolated singularities.