Area minimizing surfaces in homotopy classes in metric spaces

DOI10.1090/TRAN/8580zbMATH Open1491.49028arXiv2012.15530OpenAlexW3115907761MaRDI QIDQ5082372FDOQ5082372

Authors: Elefterios Soultanis, Stefan Wenger 

Publication date: 16 June 2022

Published in: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We introduce and study a notion of relative 1-homotopy type for Sobolev maps from a surface to a metric space spanning a given collection of Jordan curves. We use this to establish the existence and local H"older regularity of area minimizing surfaces in a given relative 1-homotopy class in proper geodesic metric spaces admitting a local quadratic isoperimetric inequality. If the underlying space has trivial second homotopy group then relatively 1-homotopic maps are relatively homotopic. We also obtain an analog for closed surfaces in a given 1-homotopy class. Our theorems generalize and strengthen results of Lemaire, Jost, Schoen-Yau, and Sacks-Uhlenbeck.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.15530

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal surfaces and optimization (49Q05) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23)

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