Surfaces with generalized second fundamental form in \(L^ 2\) are Lipschitz manifolds (Q1324789)

The author studies the relationship between the class of surfaces with second fundamental form in \(L^ 2\) and the class of Lipschitz surfaces, i.e. surfaces that are locally homeomorphic via a bilipschitz map to a flat disc. For functions \(u\), defined on a domain \(\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^ 2\), having locally square integrable partial derivatives up to order 2 (in the generalized sense), the Sobolev embedding theorems guarantee that \(u\) is locally Hölder continuous with any exponent \(\alpha < 1\) and also that the gradient \(Du\) is locally in \(L^ p\) for every \(p < \infty\). Even if the functions \(u\) may not be locally Lipschitz in general, the author proves that the graphs \({\mathcal S} = \{(x,u(x)) : x \in \Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^ 2\}\) of \(W^{2,2}\) functions \(u\) are Lipschitz surfaces.