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Regularity of Critical Points of the Volume Functional for Lagrangian Submanifolds

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We give a brief survey with emphasis on recent advances on regularity of solutions to the special Lagrangian equation and the Hamiltonian stationary Lagrangian equation.

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Chen, J. Regularity of Critical Points of the Volume Functional for Lagrangian Submanifolds. J Geom Anal 32, 289 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12220-022-01041-8

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