A low rank property and nonexistence of higher-dimensional horizontal Sobolev sets

DOI10.1007/S12220-014-9478-1MaRDI QIDQ490753zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Valentino Magnani, Jan Malý, Samuele Mongodi

Publication date 28 August 2015

Published in The Journal of Geometric Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.1563

zbMATH Keywords

Heisenberg groupHausdorff measureSobolev mappingslow rank propertynonisotropic submanifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nilpotent and solvable Lie groups (22E25) Sobolev spaces and other spaces of ``smooth functions, embedding theorems, trace theorems (46E35) Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17) Integral formulas of real functions of several variables (Stokes, Gauss, Green, etc.) (26B20)

Abstract: We establish a "low rank property" for Sobolev mappings that pointwise solve a first order nonlinear system of PDEs, whose smooth solutions have the so-called "contact property". As a consequence, Sobolev mappings from an open set of the plane, taking values in the first Heisenberg group and that have almost everywhere maximal rank must have images with positive 3-dimensional Hausdorff measure with respect to the sub-Riemannian distance of the Heisenberg group. This provides a complete solution to a question raised in a paper by Z. M. Balogh, R. Hoefer-Isenegger and J. T. Tyson. Our approach differs from the previous ones. Its technical aspect consists in performing an "exterior differentiation by blow-up", where the standard distributional exterior differentiation is not possible. This method extends to higher dimensional Sobolev mappings taking values in higher dimensional Heisenberg groups.

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