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Rigidity and regularity of co-dimension one Sobolev isometric immersions

Analysis of PDEs 2013-10-03 v2 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We prove the developability and C1,1/2C^{1,1/2} regularity of W2,2W^{2,2} isometric immersions of nn-dimensional domains into Rn+1R^{n+1}. As a conclusion we show that any such Sobolev isometry can be approximated by smooth isometries in the W2,2W^{2,2} strong norm, provided the domain is C1C^1 and convex. Both results fail to be true if the Sobolev regularity is weaker than W2,2W^{2,2}.

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@article{arxiv.1302.0075,
  title  = {Rigidity and regularity of co-dimension one Sobolev isometric immersions},
  author = {Zhuomin Liu and Mohammad Reza Pakzad},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.0075},
  year   = {2013}
}

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43 pages, 15 figures