Stability of isometric immersions of hypersurfaces

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Abstract: We prove a stability result of isometric immersions of hypersurfaces in Riemannian manifolds, with respect to Lp-perturbations of their fundamental forms: For a manifold Md endowed with a reference metric and a reference shape operator, we show that a sequence of immersions fn:MdoNd+1, whose pullback metrics and shape operators are arbitrary close in Lp to the reference ones, converge to an isometric immersion having the reference shape operator. This result is motivated by elasticity theory and generalizes a previous result by the authors to a general target manifold N, removing a constant curvature assumption. The method of proof differs from that in Alpern et al.: it extends a Young measure approach that was used in codimension-0 stability results, together with an appropriate relaxation of the energy and a regularity result for immersions satisfying given fundamental forms. In addition, we prove two related quantitative (rather than asymptotic) stability results: a codimension-1 result in the case of Euclidean target, similar to Ciarlet et al. (Anal. Appl. 2019) but with no a-priori assumed bounds, and a codimension-0 result between spheres, strengthening a result in Chen et al. (J. Math. Pures Appl. 2022).



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