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Interior continuity of two-dimensional weakly stationary-harmonic multiple-valued functions

Analysis of PDEs 2013-05-10 v7

Abstract

In his big regularity paper, Almgren has proven the regularity theorem for mass-minimizing integral currents. One key step in his paper is to derive the regularity of Dirichlet-minimizing QQ(Rn)\mathbf{Q}_{Q}(\mathbb{R}^{n})-valued functions in the Sobolev space Y2(Ω,QQ(Rn))\mathcal{Y}_{2}(\Omega, \mathbf{Q}_{Q} (\mathbb{R}^{n})), where the domain Ω\Omega is open in Rm\mathbb{R}^{m}. In this article, we introduce the class of weakly stationary-harmonic QQ(Rn)\mathbf{Q}_{Q} (\mathbb{R}^n)-valued functions. These functions are the critical points of Dirichlet integral under smooth domain-variations and range-variations. We prove that if Ω\Omega is a two-dimensional domain in R2\mathbb{R}^{2} and fY2(Ω,QQ(Rn))f\in\mathcal{Y}_{2}(\Omega,\mathbf{Q}_{Q}(\mathbb{R}^{n})) is weakly stationary-harmonic, then ff is continuous in the interior of the domain Ω\Omega.

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@article{arxiv.1108.0233,
  title  = {Interior continuity of two-dimensional weakly stationary-harmonic multiple-valued functions},
  author = {Chun-Chi Lin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1108.0233},
  year   = {2013}
}
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