Interior regularity of solutions to the isotropically constrained Plateau problem

DOI10.4310/CAG.2003.V11.N5.A5MaRDI QIDQ2386785zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Weiyang Qiu

Publication date 25 August 2005

Published in Communications in Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4310/cag.2003.v11.n5.a5

zbMATH Keywords

isotropically stationarypartial regularityPlateau problemspecial Lagrangian submanifoldsweak solutions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Regularity of solutions in optimal control (49N60) Calibrations and calibrated geometries (53C38) Variational problems concerning minimal surfaces (problems in two independent variables) (58E12)

Review text

A surface in \(\mathbb R^{2n}\) is called isotropic if the restriction of the standard symplectic form of \(\mathbb R^{2n}\) to it vanishes. The object of study are surfaces minimizing area among isotropic surfaces. A natural notion of weak solutions for this kind of problem is that of stationary isotropic maps of class \(W^{1,2}\). \textit{R. Schoen} and \textit{J. Wolfson} [J. Differ. Geom. 58, 1--86 (2001; Zbl 1052.53056)] have proved that a Lagrangian map from a \(2\)-dimensional disk to \(\mathbb R^4\) (or more general a \(4\)-dimensional Kähler manifold) is a branched immersion away from a finite set of points. In the paper under review, this is extended to higher co-dimension, that is maps of the disc to \(\mathbb R^{2n}\). The focus is on the Plateau problem. Existence of \(W^{1,2}\) minimizers is proven by standard arguments. The most work goes into partial regularity. Again, smoothness in the interior away from finitely many points is proven. The proof uses excess-decay estimates and dimension reduction via classification of tangent cones. Even the higher regularity is an interesting question in this setting and requires a technical proof.

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