Approximating continuous maps by isometries

zbMATH Open1345.53075arXiv1508.00435MaRDI QIDQ739874FDOQ739874

Authors: Barry Minemyer 

Publication date: 11 August 2016

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

Abstract: The Nash-Kuiper Theorem states that the collection of $C^1$-isometric embeddings from a Riemannian manifold $M^n$ into $mathbb{E}^N$ is $C^0$-dense within the collection of all smooth 1-Lipschitz embeddings provided that $n<N$. This result is now known to be a consequence of Gromov's more general $h$-principle. There have been some recent extensions of the Nash-Kuiper Theorem to Euclidean polyhedra, which in some sense provide a very specialized discretization of the $h$-principle. In this paper we will discuss these recent results and provide generalizations to the setting of isometric embeddings of spaces endowed with indefinite metrics into Minkowski space. The new observation is that, when dealing with Minkowski space, the assumption "1-Lipschitz" can be removed. Thus, we obtain results about isometric embeddings that are $C^0$-dense within the collection of {it all} continuous maps.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.00435

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zbMATH Keywords

metric geometryMinkowski spacepolyhedral space\(h\)-principleisometric embeddingEuclidean polyhedraindefinite metric polyhedra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of local Riemannian geometry (53B21) Length, area, volume and convex sets (aspects of convex geometry) (52A38) (n)-dimensional polytopes (52B11) Polyhedral manifolds (52B70) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Embeddings in differential topology (57R40) General position and transversality (57Q65)

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