Towards a regularity theory for integral Menger curvature

DOI10.5186/AASFM.2015.4006zbMATH Open1362.53007arXiv1308.2499OpenAlexW2963587210MaRDI QIDQ3194635FDOQ3194635

Simon Blatt, Philipp Reiter

Publication date: 20 October 2015

Published in: Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We generalize the notion of integral Menger curvature introduced by Gonzalez and Maddocks by decoupling the powers in the integrand. This leads to a new two-parameter family of knot energies $int{M}^{p,q}$. We classify finite-energy curves in terms of Sobolev-Slobodeckij spaces. Moreover, restricting to the range of parameters leading to a sub-critical Euler-Lagrange equation, we prove existence of minimizers within any knot class via a uniform bi-Lipschitz bound. Consequently, $int{M}^{p,q}$ is a knot energy in the sense of O'Hara. Restricting to the non-degenerate sub-critical case, a suitable decomposition of the first variation allows to establish a bootstrapping argument that leads to $C^{infty}$-smoothness of critical points.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1308.2499

zbMATH Keywords

regularityfractional Sobolev spacesMenger curvatureknot energyintegral Menger curvaturefractional seminorms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04)

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