Boundary harmonic coordinates on manifolds with boundary in low regularity
Abstract
In this paper, we prove the existence of -regular coordinates on Riemannian -manifolds with boundary, assuming only -bounds on the Ricci curvature, -bounds on the second fundamental form of the boundary, and a positive lower bound on the volume radius. The proof follows by extending the theory of Cheeger-Gromov convergence to include manifolds with boundary in the above low regularity setting. The main tools are boundary harmonic coordinates together with elliptic estimates and a geometric trace estimate, and a rigidity argument using manifold doubling. Assuming higher regularity of the Ricci curvature, we also prove corresponding higher regularity estimates for the coordinates.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1708.01667,
title = {Boundary harmonic coordinates on manifolds with boundary in low regularity},
author = {Stefan Czimek},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.01667},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
44 pages; part 1 of a revised version of "Boundary harmonic coordinates and the localised bounded $L^2$-curvature theorem". All comments welcome!