A note on the singular set of area-minimizing hypersurfaces
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We prove an isoperimetric-type bound on the \((n-7)\)-dimensional measure of the singular set for a large class of area-minimizing n-dimensional hypersurfaces, in terms of the geometry of their boundary.
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