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Kellogg's theorem for diffeomophic minimisers of Dirichlet energy between doubly connected Riemann surfaces

Complex Variables 2020-12-02 v3

Abstract

We extend the celebrated theorem of Kellogg for conformal diffeomorphisms to the minimizers of Dirichlet energy. Namely we prove that a diffeomorphic minimiser of Dirichlet energy of Sobolev mappings between doubly connected Riemanian surfaces (\X,σ)(\X,\sigma) and (\Y,ρ)(\Y,\rho) having Cn,α\mathscr{C}^{n,\alpha} boundary, 0<α<10<\alpha<1, is Cn,α\mathscr{C}^{n,\alpha} up to the boundary, provided the metric ρ\rho is smooth enough. Here nn is a positive integer. It is crucial that, every diffeomorphic minimizer of Dirichlet energy is a harmonic mapping with a very special Hopf differential and this fact is used in the proof. This improves and extends a recent result by the author and Lamel in \cite{kalam}, where the authors proved a similar result for double-connected domains in the complex plane but for α\alpha' which is α\le \alpha and ρ1\rho\equiv 1. This is a complementary result of an existence result proved by T. Iwaniec et al. in \cite{iwa} and the author in \cite{kal0}

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@article{arxiv.2011.04629,
  title  = {Kellogg's theorem for diffeomophic minimisers of Dirichlet energy between doubly connected Riemann surfaces},
  author = {David Kalaj},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.04629},
  year   = {2020}
}

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27 pages