%0 Journal Article %@ 1050-6926 %A Bellettini, Costante %A Marshall-Stevens, Kobe %D 2025 %F discovery:10205629 %I Springer Verlag %J Journal of Geometric Analysis %T On isolated singularities and generic regularity of min-max CMC hypersurfaces %U https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10205629/ %X In compact Riemannian manifolds of dimension 3 or higher with positive Ricci curvature, we prove that every constant mean curvature hypersurface produced by the Allen-Cahn min-max procedure of Bellettini-Wickramasekera (with constant prescribing function) is a local minimiser of the natural area-type functional around each isolated singularity. In particular, every tangent cone at each isolated singularity of the resulting hypersurface is area-minimising. As a consequence, for any real $\lambda$ we show, through a surgery procedure, that for a generic 8-dimensional compact Riemannian manifold with positive Ricci curvature there exists a closed embedded smooth hypersurface of constant mean curvature $\lambda$; the minimal case ($\lambda$ = 0) of this result was obtained in work by Chodosh-Liokumovich-Spolaor. %Z This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.