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Boundary harmonic coordinates on manifolds with boundary in low regularity

Analysis of PDEs 2018-07-24 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

In this paper, we prove the existence of H2H^2-regular coordinates on Riemannian 33-manifolds with boundary, assuming only L2L^2-bounds on the Ricci curvature, L4L^4-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.

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@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!

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