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Quantitative stratification of $F$-subharmonic functions

Analysis of PDEs 2017-03-07 v2 Differential Geometry

Abstract

In this paper, we study the singular sets of FF-subharmonic functions u:B2(0n)Ru: B_{2}(0^{n})\rightarrow\mathbf{R}, where FF is a subequation. The singular set S(u)B2(0n)\mathcal{S}(u)\subset B_{2}(0^{n}) has a stratification S0(u)S1(u)Sk(u)S(u)\mathcal{S}^{0}(u)\subset\mathcal{S}^{1}(u)\subset\cdots\subset\mathcal{S}^{k}(u)\subset\cdots\subset\mathcal{S}(u), where xSk(u)x\in\mathcal{S}^{k}(u) if no tangent function to uu at xx is (k+1)(k+1)-homogeneous. We define the quantitative stratification Sη,rk(u)\mathcal{S}_{\eta,r}^{k}(u) and Sηk(u)=rSη,rk(u)\mathcal{S}_{\eta}^{k}(u)=\cap_{r}\mathcal{S}_{\eta,r}^{k}(u). When homogeneity of tangents holds for FF, we prove that dimHSk(u)kdim_{H}\mathcal{S}^{k}(u)\leq k and S(u)=Snp(u)\mathcal{S}(u)=\mathcal{S}^{n-p}(u), where pp is the Riesz characteristic of FF. And for the top quantitative stratification Sηnp(u)\mathcal{S}_{\eta}^{n-p}(u), we have the Minkowski estimate Vol(Br(Sηnp(u)B1(0n)))Cη1(B1+r(0n)Δu)rp\text{Vol}(B_{r}(\mathcal{S}_{\eta}^{n-p}(u)\cap B_{1}(0^{n})))\leq C\eta^{-1}(\int_{B_{1+r}(0^{n})}\Delta u)r^{p}. When uniqueness of tangents holds for FF, we show that Sηk(u)S_{\eta}^{k}(u) is kk-rectifiable, which implies Sk(u)\mathcal{S}^{k}(u) is kk-rectifiable. When strong uniqueness of tangents holds for FF, we introduce the monotonicity condition and the notion of FF-energy. By using refined covering argument, we obtain a definite upper bound on the number of {Θ(u,x)c}\{\Theta(u,x)\geq c\} for c>0c>0, where Θ(u,x)\Theta(u,x) is the density of FF-subharmonic function uu at xx. Geometrically determined subequations F(G)F(\mathbb{G}) is a very important kind of subequation (when p=2p=2, homogeneity of tangents holds for F(G)F(\mathbb{G}); when p>2p>2, uniqueness of tangents holds for F(G)F(\mathbb{G})). By introducing the notion of G\mathbb{G}-energy and using quantitative differentation argument, we obtain the Minkowski estimate of quantitative stratification Vol(Br(Sη,rk(u))B1(0n))Crnkη\text{Vol}(B_{r}(\mathcal{S}_{\eta,r}^{k}(u))\cap B_{1}(0^{n}))\leq Cr^{n-k-\eta}.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1610.09946,
  title  = {Quantitative stratification of $F$-subharmonic functions},
  author = {Jianchun Chu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.09946},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

38 pages; added more details; Lemma 7.11 and Section 8.1 are rewritten; corrected typos; references updated; other places have also some small changes

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