Tangency properties of sets with finite geometric curvature energies

DOI10.4064/FM218-2-4MaRDI QIDQ2900985zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sebastian Scholtes

Publication date 27 July 2012

Published in Fundamenta Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.0472, http://publications.rwth-aachen.de/record/230847

zbMATH Keywords

Menger curvatureapproximate tangentgeometric curvature energy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Length, area, volume, other geometric measure theory (28A75) Geometric measure and integration theory, integral and normal currents in optimization (49Q15)

Abstract: We investigate inverse thickness $1/Delta$ and the integral Menger curvature energies $mathcal{U}_p^{alpha}$, $mathcal{I}_p^{alpha}$ and $mathcal{M}_p^{alpha}$, to find that finite $1/Delta$ or $mathcal{U}_p^{alpha}$ implies the existence of an approximate $alpha$-tangent at all points of the set, when $pgeqalpha$ and that finite $mathcal{I}_p^{alpha}$ or $mathcal{M}_p^{alpha}$ implies the existence of a weak approximate $alpha$-tangent at every point of the set for $pgeq2alpha$ or $pgeq3alpha$, respectively, if some additional density properties hold. This includes the scale invariant case $p=2$ for $mathcal{I}_p^1$ and $p=3$ for $mathcal{M}_p^1$, for which, to the best of our knowledge, no regularity properties are established up to now. Furthermore we prove that for $alpha=1$ these exponents are sharp, i.e., that if $p$ lies below the threshold value of scale innvariance, then there exists a set containing points with no (weak) approximate 1-tangent, but such that the corresponding energy is still finite. For $mathcal{I}_p^1$ and $mathcal{M}_p^1$ we give an example of a set which possesses a point that has no approximate 1-tangent, but finite energy for all $pin(0,infty)$ and thus show that the existence of weak approximate 1-tangents is the most we can expect, in other words our results are also optimal in this respect.

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