Integral Menger curvature for surfaces

Details Integral Menger curvature for surfaces Integral Menger curvature for surfaces

2009-11-11

arxiv.org/abs/0911.2095v2

Advances in Mathematics 226 (2011), 2233-2304

Mathematics

Classical Analysis and ODEs

64 pages, 7 figures. Submitted. Version 2: extended comments on the relation to Lerman's and Whitehouse's work on Menger curva

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.aim.2010.09.016

We develop the concept of integral Menger curvature for a large class of nonsmooth surfaces. We prove uniform Ahlfors regularity and a $C^{1,\lambda}$-a-priori bound for surfaces for which this functional is finite. In fact, it turns out that there is an explicit length scale $R>0$ which depends only on an upper bound $E$ for the integral Menger curvature $M_p(\Sigma)$ and the integrability exponent $p$, and \emph{not} on the surface $\Sigma$ itself; below that scale, each surface with energy smaller than $E$ looks like a nearly flat disc with the amount of bending controlled by the (local) $M_p$-energy. Moreover, integral Menger curvature can be defined a priori for surfaces with self-intersections or branch points; we prove that a posteriori all such singularities are excluded for surfaces with finite integral Menger curvature. By means of slicing and iterative arguments we bootstrap the H\"{o}lder exponent $\lambda$ up to the optimal one, $\lambda=1-(8/p)$, thus establishing a new geometric `Morrey-Sobolev' imbedding theorem. As two of the various possible variational applications we prove the existence of surfaces in given isotopy classes minimizing integral Menger curvature with a uniform bound on area, and of area minimizing surfaces subjected to a uniform bound on integral Menger curvature.

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