Invitation to H-systems in higher dimensions: known results, new facts, and related open problems

DOI10.4171/EMSS/4-1-2MaRDI QIDQ2363091zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Armin Schikorra, Paweł Strzelecki

Publication date 13 July 2017

Published in EMS Surveys in Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.07891

zbMATH Keywords

\(H\)-system\(n\)-Laplacianregularity of solutions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to partial differential equations (35-02) Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs (35B65) Nonlinear elliptic equations (35J60) Degenerate elliptic equations (35J70) Quasilinear elliptic equations with (p)-Laplacian (35J92) Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20)

Abstract: In this paper, we discuss two well-known open problems in the regularity theory for nonlinear, conformally invariant elliptic systems in dimensions $nge3$, with a critical nonlinearity: $H$-systems (equations of hypersurfaces of prescribed mean curvature) and $n$-harmonic maps into compact Riemannian manifolds. For $n=2$ several solutions of these problems are known but they all break down in higher dimensions (unless one considers special cases, e.g. hypersurfaces of constant mean curvature or manifolds with symmetries). We discuss some of the known proofs and hint at the main difficulties. We also state a few new results (such as positive answers for all solutions of class $W^{n/2,2}$ for even $n$, instead of $W^{1,n}$) and list some open questions of independent interest - including specific endpoint variants of the Coifman-Rochberg-Weiss theorem, addressing the boundedness of commutators of fractional and singular integrals with multiplication by bounded functions of class $W^{1,n}$ - that would lead to solutions of these two problems.

Review text

In this primarily survey paper, the authors discuss two well-known open problems concerning regularity for nonlinear conformally invariant elliptic systems in dimensions \(n\geq 3\): \(H\)-systems and \(n\)-harmonic maps into compact Riemannian manifolds. Some solutions of these problems are known in dimension \(n=2\), but these solutions break down in higher dimensions, except in very special cases, e.g. hypersurfaces of constant mean curvature or manifolds with symmetries. The authors discuss some solutions in the special cases and hint at the main difficulties involved in the general case. They also state some new results and they list some open questions of independent interest, whose answers would lead to solutions of the problems in question.

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