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p-harmonic coordinates for H\"older metrics and applications

Differential Geometry 2015-07-15 v1

Abstract

We show that on any Riemannian manifold with H\"older continuous metric tensor, there exists a pp-harmonic coordinate system near any point. When p=np = n this leads to a useful gauge condition for regularity results in conformal geometry. As applications, we show that any conformal mapping between manifolds having CαC^\alpha metric tensors is C1+αC^{1+\alpha} regular, and that a manifold with W1,nCαW^{1,n} \cap C^\alpha metric tensor and with vanishing Weyl tensor is locally conformally flat if n4n \geq 4. The results extend the works [LS14, LS15] from the case of C1+αC^{1+\alpha} metrics to the H\"older continuous case. In an appendix, we also develop some regularity results for overdetermined elliptic systems in divergence form.

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@article{arxiv.1507.03874,
  title  = {p-harmonic coordinates for H\"older metrics and applications},
  author = {Vesa Julin and Tony Liimatainen and Mikko Salo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.03874},
  year   = {2015}
}

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26 pages

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