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Rickman rugs and intrinsic bilipschitz graphs

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2020-11-17 v1 Differential Geometry Metric Geometry

Abstract

This paper studies the geometry of bilipschitz maps f ⁣:WHf \colon \mathbb{W} \to \mathbb{H}, where H\mathbb{H} is the first Heisenberg group, and WH\mathbb{W} \subset \mathbb{H} is a vertical subgroup of co-dimension 11. The images f(W)f(\mathbb{W}) of such maps are called Rickman rugs in the Heisenberg group. The main theorem states that a Rickman rug in the Heisenberg group admits a corona decomposition by intrinsic bilipschitz graphs. As a corollary, Rickman rugs are countably rectifiable by intrinsic bilipschitz graphs. Here, an intrinsic bilipschitz graph is an intrinsic Lipschitz graph, which is simultaneously a Rickman rug. General intrinsic Lipschitz graphs need not be Rickman rugs, even locally, by an example of Bigolin and Vittone.

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@article{arxiv.2011.08168,
  title  = {Rickman rugs and intrinsic bilipschitz graphs},
  author = {Tuomas Orponen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.08168},
  year   = {2020}
}

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65 pages, 3 figures

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