Rectifiable-Reifenberg and the regularity of stationary and minimizing harmonic maps

DOI10.4007/ANNALS.2017.185.1.3MaRDI QIDQ509693zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Aaron Naber, Daniele Valtorta

Publication date 17 February 2017

Published in Annals of Mathematics. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.02043

zbMATH Keywords

stratificationregularityrectifiabilityminimizing harmonic mapstationary harmonic map

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20) Differential geometric aspects of harmonic maps (53C43)

Abstract: In this paper we study the regularity of stationary and minimizing harmonic maps $f:B_2(p)subseteqMoN$ between Riemannian manifolds. If $$x$$ is $k^{th}$-stratum of the singular set of $f$, then it is well known that $dim{S}^{k}leqk$, however little else about the structure of $S^k(f)$ is understood in any generality. Our first result is for a general stationary harmonic map, where we prove that $S^k(f)$ is $k$-rectifiable. In the case of minimizing harmonic maps we go further, and prove that the singular set $S(f)$, which is well known to satisfy $dimS(f)leqn-3$, is in fact $n-3$-rectifiable with uniformly {it finite} $n-3$-measure. An effective version of this allows us to prove that $|ablaf|$ has estimates in $L_{weak}^3$, an estimate which is sharp as $|ablaf|$ may not live in $L^3$. The above results are in fact just applications of a new class of estimates we prove on the {it quantitative} stratifications $S_{epsilon,r}^k(f)$ and $S_{epsilon}^k(f)equiv{S}_{epsilon,0}^k(f)$. Roughly, $S_{epsilon}^{k}subseteqM$ is the collection of points $xin{S}_e^{k}psilon$ for which no ball $B_r(x)$ is $epsilon$-close to being $k+1$-symmetric. We show that $S_e^{k}psilon$ is $k$-rectifiable and satisfies the Minkowski estimate $Vol(B_r,S_{e}psilo{n}^k)leqC{r}^{n-k}$. The proofs require a new $L^2$-subspace approximation theorem for stationary harmonic maps, as well as new $W^{1,p}$-Reifenberg and rectifiable-Reifenberg type theorems. These results are generalizations of the classical Reifenberg, and give checkable criteria to determine when a set is $k$-rectifiable with uniform measure estimates. The new Reifenberg type theorems may be of some independent interest.

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