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Sobolev spaces of isometric immersions of arbitrary dimension and codimension

Analysis of PDEs 2014-09-03 v3

Abstract

We prove the C1C^{1} regularity and developability of W2,pW^{2,p} isometric immersions of nn-dimensional flat domains into Rn+k{\mathbb R}^{n+k} where pmin{2k,n}p\ge \min\{2k, n\}. Another parallel consequence of our methods is a similar regularity and rigidity result for the W2,nW^{2,n} solutions of the degenerate Monge-Amp\`ere equations in nn dimensions. The analysis also applies to the situations when the degeneracy is extended to (k+1)×(k+1)(k+1)\times (k+1) minors of the Hessian matrix and the solution is W2,pW^{2,p}, with pmin{2k,n}p\ge \min\{2k, n\}.

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@article{arxiv.1405.4765,
  title  = {Sobolev spaces of isometric immersions of arbitrary dimension and codimension},
  author = {Robert L. Jerrard and Mohammad Reza Pakzad},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.4765},
  year   = {2014}
}

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