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Allard's interior $\varepsilon$-Regularity Theorem in Alexandrov spaces

Differential Geometry 2025-04-17 v2 Analysis of PDEs Metric Geometry

Abstract

In this paper, we prove Allard's Interior ε\varepsilon-Regularity Theorem for mm-dimensional varifolds with generalized mean curvature in LlocpL^p_{loc}, for pRp \in \mathbb{R} such that p>mp>m, in Alexandrov spaces of dimension nn with double-sided bounded intrinsic sectional curvature. We first give an intrinsic proof of this theorem in the case of varifolds in Riemannian manifolds of dimension nn whose metric tensor is at least of class C2\mathcal{C}^2, without using Nash's Isometric Embedding Theorem. This approach provides explicitly computable constants that depend only on nn, mm, the injectivity radius and bounds on the sectional curvature, which is essential for proving our main theorem, as we establish it through a density argument in the topological space of Riemannian manifolds with positive lower bounds on the injectivity radius and double-sided bounds on sectional curvature, equipped with the C1,α\mathcal{C}^{1,\alpha} topology, for every α]0,1[\alpha \in ]0,1[ (in fact, it is enough with the W2,qW^{2,q} topology for some suitable qq large enough).

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@article{arxiv.2504.10758,
  title  = {Allard's interior $\varepsilon$-Regularity Theorem in Alexandrov spaces},
  author = {Marcos Agnoletto and Julio C. Correa Hoyos and Márcio Fabiano da Silva and Stefano Nardulli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.10758},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

88 pages, 5 figures, any comments or suggestions are welcome. Please send them to Marcos Agnoletto at [email protected]. In the second version, we corrected a typo that appeared in Theorem A, Theorem B, and Corollary A. Specifically, we replaced $p \in \mathbb{N}$ with $p \in \mathbb{R}$ and added new references