The local isometric embedding in R^3 of two-dimensional Riemannian manifolds with Gaussian curvature changing sign to finite order on a curve

DOI10.4310/JDG/1180135679MaRDI QIDQ2373560zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Marcus A. Khuri

Publication date 12 July 2007

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1003.2244

zbMATH Keywords

Gaussian curvatureisometric embeddingMonge-Ampere equationsNash-Moser iteration procedure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs of mixed type (35M10) Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05) Local Riemannian geometry (53B20) Local submanifolds (53B25)

Abstract: We consider two natural problems arising in geometry which are equivalent to the local solvability of specific equations of Monge-Ampere type. These two problems are: the local isometric embedding problem for two-dimensional Riemannian manifolds, and the problem of locally prescribed Gaussian curvature for surfaces in R^3. We prove a general local existence result for a large class of Monge-Ampere equations in the plane, and obtain as corollaries the existence of regular solutions to both problems, in the case that the Gaussian curvature vanishes to arbitrary finite order on a single smooth curve.

Review text

It is known since a long time that a two-dimensional Riemannian manifold \((M^2, ds^2)\) can be isometrically embedded in \({\mathbb R}^3\) provided that \(ds^2\) is analytic or of Gaussian curvature \(K \neq 0\). For metrics with low regularity the embedding is not always possible, some counterexamples are known. In the paper, which is a revised part of the dissertation supervised by J. Kazdan, the author considers Riemannian manifolds in a neighbourhood of a point at which \(K = 0\). He proves theorems showing the existence of the embedding under appropriate assumptions on the smoothness of \(ds^2\) (\(ds^2 \in C^r\) where \(r \geq 60\) and \(K\) vanishes to a finite order along a single curve passing through the origin). Another (closely related) problem treated in this paper is the existence of a piece of a surface in \({\mathbb R}^3\) under the assumption that its Gaussian curvature is prescribed (\(K \in C^r\), \(r \geq 58\), and \(K\) vanishes to a finite order along a curve). In order to solve the problems the author reduce them to specific equations of Monge-Amperé type. The paper is concerned with a detailed analysis of the local solvability of such equations. To construct local solutions the author applies the Nash-Moser iteration procedure.

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