h-Principle and Rigidity for C 1,α Isometric Embeddings

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Abstract: In this paper we study the embedding of Riemannian manifolds in low codimension. The well-known result of Nash and Kuiper says that any short embedding in codimension one can be uniformly approximated by C1 isometric embeddings. This statement clearly cannot be true for C2 embeddings in general, due to the classical rigidity in the Weyl problem. In fact Borisov extended the latter to embeddings of class C1,alpha with alpha>2/3. On the other hand he announced in that the Nash-Kuiper statement can be extended to local C1,alpha embeddings with alpha<(1+n+n2)1, where n is the dimension of the manifold, provided the metric is analytic. Subsequently a proof of the 2-dimensional case appeared. In this paper we provide analytic proofs of all these statements, for general dimension and general metric.




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