The L^p Teichmüller theory: existence and regularity of critical points

DOI10.1007/S00205-023-01955-9MaRDI QIDQ6153489OpenAlexFDO

Authors Gaven J. Martin, Cong Yao

Publication date 14 February 2024

Published in Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.15149

zbMATH Keywords

minimizerdistortion\(p\)-conformal energy functional

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quasiconformal mappings in the complex plane (30C62)

Abstract: We study minimisers of the $p$-conformal energy functionals, [ mathsf{E}_p(f):=int_ID IK^p(z,f),dz,quad f|_IS=f_0|_IS, ] defined for self mappings $f:IDoID$ with finite distortion and prescribed boundary values $f_0$. Here [ IK(z,f) = frac{|Df(z)|^2}{J(z,f)} = frac{1+|mu_f(z)|^2}{1-|mu_f(z)|^2}] is the pointwise distortion functional and $m{u}_f(z)$ is the Beltrami coefficient of $f$. We show that for quasisymmetric boundary data the limiting regimes $poinfty$ recover the classical Teichm"uller theory of extremal quasiconformal mappings (in part a result of Ahlfors), and for $po1$ recovers the harmonic mapping theory. Critical points of $mathsf{E}_p$ always satisfy the inner-variational distributional equation [ 2pint_ID IK^p;frac{overline{mu_f}}{1+|mu_f|^2}varphi_zbar ; dz=int_ID IK^p ; varphi_z; dz,quadforallvarphiin C_0^infty(ID ). ] We establish the existence of minimisers in the {em a priori} regularity class $W^{1,frac2pp+1}(ID)$ and show these minimisers have a pseudo-inverse - a continuous $W^{1,2}(ID)$ surjection of $ID$ with $(hcircf)(z)=z$ almost everywhere. We then give a sufficient condition to ensure $C^{infty}(ID)$ smoothness of solutions to the distributional equation. For instance $IK(z,f)in{L}_{loc}^r(ID)$ for any $r>p+1$ is enough to imply the solutions to the distributional equation are local diffeomorphisms. Further $IK(w,h)in{L}^1(ID)$ will imply $h$ is a homeomorphism, and together these results yield a diffeomorphic minimiser. We show such higher regularity assumptions to be necessary for critical points of the inner variational equation.

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