A gradient estimate for nonlocal minimal graphs

The talk will be concerned with s-minimal surfaces, that is, hypersurfaces of R^n with zero nonlocal mean curvature. These are the equations associated to critical points of the fractional s-perimeter. We will present a recent result in collaboration with M. Cozzi in which we establish, in any dimension, a gradient estimate for nonlocal minimal graphs. It leads to their smoothness, a result that was only known for n=2 and 3 (but without a quantitative bound); in higher dimensions only their continuity had been established. We will also present a work with E. Cinti and J. Serra in which we prove that half spaces are the only stable s-minimal cones in R^3 for s sufficiently close to 1.