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Extrinsic curvature of codimension one isometric immersions with H\"older continuous derivatives

Differential Geometry 2016-09-15 v3 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We prove that if nn is even, (M,g)(M,g) is a compact nn-dimensional Riemannian manifold whose Pfaffian form is a positive multiple of the volume form, and yC1,α(M;Rn+1)y\in C^{1,\alpha}(M;\mathbb{R}^{n+1}) is an isometric immersion with n/(n+1)<α1n/(n+1)< \alpha\leq 1, then y(M)y(M) is a surface of bounded extrinsic curvature. This is proved by showing that extrinsic curvature, defined by a suitable pull-back of the volume form on the nn-sphere via the Gauss map, is identical to intrinsic curvature, defined by the Pfaffian form. This latter fact is stated in form of an integral identity for the Brouwer degree of the Gauss map, that is classical for C2C^2 functions, but new for n>2n>2 in the present context of low regularity.

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@article{arxiv.1601.05959,
  title  = {Extrinsic curvature of codimension one isometric immersions with H\"older continuous derivatives},
  author = {Sören Behr and Heiner Olbermann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.05959},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

20 pages; proof of Proposition 2 corrected