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Regularity of solutions of the isoperimetric problem that are close to a smooth manifold

Differential Geometry 2020-07-16 v4 Analysis of PDEs Metric Geometry

Abstract

In this work we consider a question in the calculus of variations motivated by riemannian geometry, the isoperimetric problem. We show that solutions to the isoperimetric problem, close in the flat norm to a smooth submanifold, are themselves smooth and C2,αC^{2,\alpha}-close to the given sub manifold. We show also a version with variable metric on the manifold. The techniques used are, among other, the standards outils of linear elliptic analysis and comparison theorems of riemannian geometry, Allard's regularity theorem for minimizing varifolds, the isometric immersion theorem of Nash and a parametric version due to Gromov.

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@article{arxiv.0710.1849,
  title  = {Regularity of solutions of the isoperimetric problem that are close to a smooth manifold},
  author = {Stefano Nardulli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0710.1849},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

75 pages, 2 figures, corrected typos, and some minor errors, added more detailed proofs. Accepted in Bulletin of the Brazilian Mathematical Society, 2017