Rigidity and regularity of co-dimension one Sobolev isometric immersions

Abstract: We prove the developability and

C^{1, 1 / 2}

regularity of

W^{2, 2}

isometric immersions of

n

-dimensional domains into

R^{n + 1}

. As a conclusion we show that any such Sobolev isometry can be approximated by smooth isometries in the

W^{2, 2}

strong norm, provided the domain is

C^{1}

and convex. Both results fail to be true if the Sobolev regularity is weaker than

W^{2, 2}

.

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