Uniqueness of tangent cones for two-dimensional almost-minimizing currents

Abstract

We consider two-dimensional integer rectifiable currents that are almost area minimizing and show that their tangent cones are everywhere unique. Our argument unifies a few uniqueness theorems of the same flavor, which are all obtained by a suitable modification of White's original theorem for area-minimizing currents in the euclidean space. This note is also the first step in a regularity program for semicalibrated two-dimensional currents and spherical cross sections of three-dimensional area-minimizing cones.