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This research was supported in part by grants from the National Science Foundation. Part of the work of the second author was carried out at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and was supported by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Part of the work of the third author was supported by a grant from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.
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Schoen, R., Simon, L. & Almgren, F.J. Regularity and singularity estimates on hypersurfaces minimizing parametric elliptic variational integrals. Acta Math. 139, 217–265 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02392238
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