On transversal submanifolds and their measure

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Abstract: We study the class of transversal submanifolds. We characterize their blow-ups at transversal points and prove a negligibility theorem for their "generalized characteristic set", with respect to the Carnot-Carath'eodory Hausdorff measure. This set is made by all points of non-maximal degree. Observing that C^1 submanifolds in Carnot groups are generically transversal, the previous results prove that the "intrinsic measure" of C^1 submanifolds is generically equivalent to their Carnot-Carath'eodory Hausdorff measure. As a result, the restriction of this Hausdorff measure to the submanifold can be replaced by a more manageable integral formula, that should be seen as a "sub-Riemannian mass". Another consequence of these results is an explicit formula, only depending on the embedding of the submanifold, that computes the Carnot-Carath'eodory Hausdorff dimension of C^1 transversal submanifolds.


The authors study transversal submanifolds in Carnot groups. The main results are a blow-up theorem and a negligibility theorem for all \(C^1\) smooth transversal submanifolds which generalize the results obtained for hypersurfaces in [the first author, ibid. 106, 95--127 (2008; Zbl 1158.22006); J. Eur. Math. Soc. (JEMS) 8, No. 4, 585--609 (2006; Zbl 1107.22004)].



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