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Weak Continuity of the Gauss-Codazzi-Ricci System for Isometric Embedding

Analysis of PDEs 2009-04-24 v1 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We establish the weak continuity of the Gauss-Coddazi-Ricci system for isometric embedding with respect to the uniform LpL^p-bounded solution sequence for p>2p>2, which implies that the weak limit of the isometric embeddings of the manifold is still an isometric embedding. More generally, we establish a compensated compactness framework for the Gauss-Codazzi-Ricci system in differential geometry. That is, given any sequence of approximate solutions to this system which is uniformly bounded in L2L^2 and has reasonable bounds on the errors made in the approximation (the errors are confined in a compact subset of Hloc1H^{-1}_{\text{loc}}), then the approximating sequence has a weakly convergent subsequence whose limit is a solution of the Gauss-Codazzi-Ricci system. Furthermore, a minimizing problem is proposed as a selection criterion. For these, no restriction on the Riemann curvature tensor is made.

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@article{arxiv.0904.3583,
  title  = {Weak Continuity of the Gauss-Codazzi-Ricci System for Isometric Embedding},
  author = {Gui-Qiang Chen and Marshall Slemrod and Dehua Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0904.3583},
  year   = {2009}
}
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