Integral Menger curvature for surfaces

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2010.09.016zbMATH Open1211.28003arXiv0911.2095OpenAlexW2165342553MaRDI QIDQ624322FDOQ624322

Authors: Paweł Strzelecki, Heiko von der Mosel 

Publication date: 9 February 2011

Published in: Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We develop the concept of integral Menger curvature for a large class of nonsmooth surfaces. We prove uniform Ahlfors regularity and a $C^{1,lambda}$-a-priori bound for surfaces for which this functional is finite. In fact, it turns out that there is an explicit length scale $R>0$ which depends only on an upper bound $E$ for the integral Menger curvature $M_p(Sigma)$ and the integrability exponent $p$, and emph{not} on the surface $Sigma$ itself; below that scale, each surface with energy smaller than $E$ looks like a nearly flat disc with the amount of bending controlled by the (local) $M_p$-energy. Moreover, integral Menger curvature can be defined a priori for surfaces with self-intersections or branch points; we prove that a posteriori all such singularities are excluded for surfaces with finite integral Menger curvature. By means of slicing and iterative arguments we bootstrap the H"{o}lder exponent $lambda$ up to the optimal one, $lambda=1-(8/p)$, thus establishing a new geometric `Morrey-Sobolev' imbedding theorem. As two of the various possible variational applications we prove the existence of surfaces in given isotopy classes minimizing integral Menger curvature with a uniform bound on area, and of area minimizing surfaces subjected to a uniform bound on integral Menger curvature.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0911.2095

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zbMATH Keywords

Menger curvaturesurface theorygeometeric Morrey-Sobolev embeddingself-avoidance energyuniform Ahlfors regularity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Length, area, volume, other geometric measure theory (28A75) Sobolev spaces and other spaces of ``smooth functions, embedding theorems, trace theorems (46E35) Optimization of shapes other than minimal surfaces (49Q10) Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21)

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