Immersed spheres of finite total curvature into manifolds

DOI10.1515/ACV-2013-0106MaRDI QIDQ468544zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Andrea Mondino, Tristan Rivière

Publication date 7 November 2014

Published in Advances in the Calculus of Variations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1305.6205

zbMATH Keywords

minimal surfacesconformal differential geometryelliptic regularity theorygeometric PDEoptimal surfacesweak immersions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational methods for elliptic systems (35J50) Variational methods for higher-order elliptic equations (35J35) Higher-order elliptic systems (35J48) PDEs on manifolds (35R01) Optimization of shapes other than minimal surfaces (49Q10) Global submanifolds (53C40) Variational principles in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E30) Extremal problems for conformal and quasiconformal mappings, variational methods (30C70) Variational problems concerning extremal problems in several variables; Yang-Mills functionals (58E15) Realizing cycles by submanifolds (57R95)

Abstract: We prove that a sequence of possibly branched, weak immersions of the two-sphere $S^2$ into an arbitrary compact riemannian manifold $(M^m,h)$ with uniformly bounded area and uniformly bounded $L^2-$norm of the second fundamental form either collapse to a point or weakly converges as current, modulo extraction of a subsequence, to a Lipschitz mapping of $S^2$ and whose image is made of a connected union of finitely many, possibly branched, weak immersions of $S^2$ with finite total curvature. We prove moreover that if the sequence belongs to a class $gamma$ of $p{i}_2(M^m)$ the limiting lipschitz mapping of $S^2$ realizes this class as well.

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