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A note on propagation of singularities of semiconcave functions of two variables

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2010-02-16 v1

Abstract

P. Albano and P. Cannarsa proved in 1999 that, under some applicable conditions, singularities of semiconcave functions in Rn\R^n propagate along Lipschitz arcs. Further regularity properties of these arcs were proved by P. Cannarsa and Y. Yu in 2009. We prove that, for n=2n=2, these arcs are very regular: they can be found in the form (in a suitable Cartesian coordinate system) ψ(x)=(x,y1(x)y2(x)),x[0,α]\psi(x) = (x, y_1(x)-y_2(x)), x \in [0,\alpha], where y1y_1, y2y_2 are convex and Lipschitz on [0,α][0,\alpha]. In other words: singularities propagate along arcs with finite turn.

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@article{arxiv.1002.2911,
  title  = {A note on propagation of singularities of semiconcave functions of two variables},
  author = {Ludek Zajicek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1002.2911},
  year   = {2010}
}