Quantitative nonorientability of embedded cycles

Geometric measure and integration theory, integral and normal currents in optimization (49Q15) Higher-dimensional and -codimensional surfaces in Euclidean and related (n)-spaces (53A07)

Abstract: We introduce an invariant linked to some foundational questions in geometric measure theory and provide bounds on this invariant by decomposing an arbitrary cycle into uniformly rectifiable pieces. Our invariant measures the difficulty of cutting a nonorientable closed manifold or mod-2 cycle in

m a t h b b R^{n}

into orientable pieces, and we use it to answer some simple but long-open questions on filling volumes and mod-

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currents.

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The author defines an invariant on certain manifolds and cycles and uses this invariant to answer open questions in geometric measure theory. If \(A\) is a mod-\(\nu\) cycle in \(\mathbb R^N\) or integral current mod \(\nu\), then the \textit{nonorientability of \(A\)} is defined to be the infimal masses of \(\mathbb Z\) cycles equivalent to \(A\). This invariant describes the difficulty of decomposing a cycle into orientable pieces. The author proves that nonorientability of integral cycles is approximately bounded from above by mass. The author uses this to positively answer a couple open questions. The author proves that the map \(T\mapsto \nu T\) is an embedding on the space of integral flat \(d\)-chains in \(\mathbb R^n\), with closed image. The author also proves that every integral current mod \(\nu\) is equivalent mod \(\nu\) to an integral current.

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