A direct approach to Plateau's problem in any codimension

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2015.10.007MaRDI QIDQ900845zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Guido De Philippis, Antonio De Rosa, Francesco Ghiraldin

Publication date 23 December 2015

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.07109

zbMATH Keywords

geometric measure theoryHausdorff measurePlateau's problemrectifiable setssets of finite perimetersliding minimizers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Regularity of solutions in optimal control (49N60) Minimal surfaces and optimization (49Q05) Geometric measure and integration theory, integral and normal currents in optimization (49Q15)

Abstract: This paper aims to propose a direct approach to solve the Plateau's problem in codimension higher than one. The problem is formulated as the minimization of the Hausdorff measure among a family of $d$-rectifiable closed subsets of $mathbb{R}^n$: following the previous work cite{DelGhiMag} the existence result is obtained by a compactness principle valid under fairly general assumptions on the class of competitors. Such class is then specified to give meaning to boundary conditions. We also show that the obtained minimizers are regular up to a set of dimension less than $(d-1)$.

Review text

The authors extend to any codimension some results obtained in [\textit{C. De Lellis} et al., ``A direct approach to Plateau's problem, J. Eur. Math. Soc. (to appear), \url{arXiv:1408.4047}]. They show that in the case of \(\mathfrak{H}^d\) rectifiable sets that are closed by Lipschitz deformations, the infimum is achieved by a compact set \(K\) which, away from the boundary, is an analytic manifold outside a closed set of Hausdorff dimension at most \(d-1\). Then, they apply this result to provide existence of sets spanning a given boundary according to a natural generalization given by Harrison and Pugh. They show the existence of sliding minimizers in any codimension. The general strategy of proof is that from [loc. cit.] with some non-trivial modification which is done in order to deal with sets of any codimension. They obtain a precise density lower bound for the measure obtained as limit of the sequence of Radon measures naturally associated to a minimizing sequence \((K_j)\). Instead of relying on relative isoperimetric inequalities on the sphere, they use the deformation theorem of David and Semmes to obtain some suitable sets, following a strategy introduced by Federer and Fleming in the case of rectifiable currents. They show that any set achieving the infimum is a stationary varifold which is smooth outside a set of relative codimension one. This regularity is optimal.

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