ScalingStacks

Remark 8. A classical counterexample of Pogorelov shows that for $n=3$, the singular set $\Sigma$ can contain a line segment. This is generalised by Caffarelli [9], who for any $k<n/2$ constructs examples where $f$ is smooth but $\Sigma$ contains a $k$-plane. A surprising example of Mooney [61] shows that the Hausdorff dimension of $\Sigma$ can be larger than $n-1-\epsilon$ for any small $\epsilon$. This means the local regularity theory surveyed above is essentially optimal.