Variations of generalized area functionals and p-area minimizers of bounded variation in the Heisenberg group

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Authors Jih-Hsin Cheng, Jenn-Fang Hwang

Publication date 5 October 2011

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.2691

zbMATH Keywords

Heisenberg groupminimizerfirst and second variations\(BV\)-functions\(p\)-area

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Degenerate elliptic equations (35J70) Degenerate hyperbolic equations (35L80) Optimization of shapes other than minimal surfaces (49Q10) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) PDEs on Heisenberg groups, Lie groups, Carnot groups, etc. (35R03) Analysis on CR manifolds (32V20)

Abstract: We prove the existence of a continuous $BV$ minimizer with $C^0$ boundary value for the $p$-area (pseudohermitian or horizontal area) in a parabolically convex bounded domain. We extend the domain of the area functional from $BV$ functions to vector-valued measures. Our main purpose is to study the first and second variations of such a generalized area functional including the contribution of the singular part. By giving examples in Riemannian and pseudohermitian geometries, we illustrate several known results in a unified way. We show the contribution of the singular curve in the first and second variations of the $p$-area for a surface in an arbitrary pseudohermitian $3$-manifold.

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