Good shadows, dynamics and convex hulls of complete submanifolds

DOI10.4310/AJM.2011.V15.N1.A2zbMATH Open1221.58014arXiv0908.4083MaRDI QIDQ549101FDOQ549101

Authors: Francisco Fontenele, Frederico Xavier 

Publication date: 7 July 2011

Published in: The Asian Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Ekeland variational principle implies what can be regarded as a strong version, in the $C^1$ category, of the Yau minimum principle: under the appropriate hypotheses {it every} minimizing sequence admits a {it good shadow}, a second minimizing sequence that has good properties and is asymptotic to the original one. Using arguments from dynamical systems, we give another proof of this result and also establish, with the aid of Gromov's theorem on monotonicity of volume ratios, a special case of a conjecture claiming the existence of good shadows in the original $C^2$ setting of the Yau minimum principle. The interest in having an abundance of good shadows stems from the fact that this is a desirable property if one wants to refine the applications of the asymptotic minimum principle, as it allows for information to be localized at infinity. These ideas are applied in this paper to the study of the convex hulls of complete submanifolds of Euclidean $n$-space that have controlled Grassmanian-valued Gauss maps.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0908.4083

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zbMATH Keywords

convex hullsisometric immersionslocalization at infinityOmori-Yau maximum principles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Maximum principles in context of PDEs (35B50) Dynamics induced by flows and semiflows (37C10) Convex sets in (n) dimensions (including convex hypersurfaces) (52A20) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) Variational principles in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E30)

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