English

Metric rectifiability of $\mathbb{H}$-regular surfaces with H\"older continuous horizontal normal

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2021-07-09 v5 Differential Geometry Metric Geometry

Abstract

Two definitions for the rectfiability of hypersurfaces in Heisenberg groups Hn\mathbb{H}^n have been proposed: one based on H\mathbb{H}-regular surfaces, and the other on Lipschitz images of subsets of codimension-11 vertical subgroups. The equivalence between these notions remains an open problem. Recent partial results are due to Cole-Pauls, Bigolin-Vittone, and Antonelli-Le Donne. This paper makes progress in one direction: the metric Lipschitz rectifiability of H\mathbb{H}-regular surfaces. We prove that H\mathbb{H}-regular surfaces in Hn\mathbb{H}^{n} with α\alpha-H\"older continuous horizontal normal, α>0\alpha > 0, are metric bilipschitz rectifiable. This improves on the work by Antonelli-Le Donne, where the same conclusion was obtained for CC^{\infty}-surfaces. In H1\mathbb{H}^{1}, we prove a slightly stronger result: every codimension-11 intrinsic Lipschitz graph with an ϵ\epsilon of extra regularity in the vertical direction is metric bilipschitz rectifiable. All the proofs in the paper are based on a new general criterion for finding bilipschitz maps between "big pieces" of metric spaces.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1906.10215,
  title  = {Metric rectifiability of $\mathbb{H}$-regular surfaces with H\"older continuous horizontal normal},
  author = {Daniela Di Donato and Katrin Fässler and Tuomas Orponen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.10215},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

46 pages. v5: incorporated referee suggestions

R2 v1 2026-06-23T10:02:26.665Z