Solutions to the Reifenberg plateau problem with cohomological spanning conditions

DOI10.1007/S00526-016-1022-7zbMATH Open1357.49055arXiv1506.01692OpenAlexW2963141282MaRDI QIDQ502235FDOQ502235

Authors: Jenny Harrison, Harrison Pugh 

Publication date: 3 January 2017

Published in: Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove existence and regularity of minimizers for H"older densities over general surfaces of arbitrary dimension and codimension in (R^n ), satisfying a cohomological boundary condition, providing a natural dual to Reifenberg's Plateau problem. We generalize and extend methods of Reifenberg, Besicovitch, and Adams, in particular we generalize a particular type of minimizing sequence used by Reifenberg (whose limits have nice properties, including lower bounds on lower density and finite Hausdorff measure,) prove such minimizing sequences exist, and develop cohomological spanning conditions. Our cohomology lemmas are dual versions of the homology lemmas in the celebrated appendix by Adams found in Reifenberg's 1960 paper.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.01692

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zbMATH Keywords

lower semicontinuityHausdorff spherical measureplateau problemReifenberg regular sequencesČech homology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation (49J45)

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