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Sufficient condition for rectifiability involving Wasserstein distance $W_2$

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2021-08-06 v2 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

A Radon measure μ\mu is nn-rectifiable if it is absolutely continuous with respect to Hn\mathcal{H}^n and μ\mu-almost all of suppμ\text{supp}\,\mu can be covered by Lipschitz images of Rn\mathbb{R}^n. In this paper we give two sufficient conditions for rectifiability, both in terms of square functions of flatness-quantifying coefficients. The first condition involves the so-called α\alpha and β2\beta_2 numbers. The second one involves α2\alpha_2 numbers -- coefficients quantifying flatness via Wasserstein distance W2W_2. Both conditions are necessary for rectifiability, too -- the first one was shown to be necessary by Tolsa, while the necessity of the α2\alpha_2 condition is established in our recent paper. Thus, we get two new characterizations of rectifiability.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1904.11004,
  title  = {Sufficient condition for rectifiability involving Wasserstein distance $W_2$},
  author = {Damian Dąbrowski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.11004},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

54 pages, added the proof of Lemma 4.5, minor improvements

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