On the geometric structure of currents tangent to smooth distributions

DOI10.4310/JDG/1668186786MaRDI QIDQ2103540zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Annalisa Massaccesi, Eugene Stepanov, Giovanni Alberti

Publication date 14 December 2022

Published in Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.07456, https://projecteuclid.org/journals/journal-of-differential-geometry/volume-122/issue-1/On-the-geometric-structure-of-currents-tangent-to-smooth-distributions/10.4310/jdg/1668186786.full

zbMATH Keywords

currentsintegral currentssmooth distributions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17) Vector distributions (subbundles of the tangent bundles) (58A30) Geometric measure and integration theory, integral and normal currents in optimization (49Q15) Currents in global analysis (58A25)

Abstract: It is well known that a k-dimensional smooth surface in a Euclidean space cannot be tangent to a non-involutive distribution of k-dimensional planes. In this paper we discuss the extension of this statement to weaker notions of surfaces, namely integral and normal currents. We find out that integral currents behave to this regard exactly as smooth surfaces, while the behaviour of normal currents is rather multifaceted. This issue is strictly related to a geometric property of the boundary of currents, which is also discussed in details.

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