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Regularity of area minimizing currents I: gradient L^p estimates

Differential Geometry 2014-09-10 v4

Abstract

In a series of papers, including the present one, we give a new, shorter proof of Almgren's partial regularity theorem for area minimizing currents in a Riemannian manifold, with a slight improvement on the regularity assumption for the latter. This note establishes a new a priori estimate on the excess measure of an area minimizing current, together with several statements concerning approximations with Lipschitz multiple valued graphs. Our new a priori estimate is an higher integrability type result, which has a counterpart in the theory of Dir-minimizing multiple valued functions and plays a key role in estimating the accuracy of the Lipschitz approximations.

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@article{arxiv.1306.1195,
  title  = {Regularity of area minimizing currents I: gradient L^p estimates},
  author = {Camillo De Lellis and Emanuele Spadaro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.1195},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

Extended and revisited version of our preprint arXiv:0910.5878. The results are generalized to the case of area minimizing currents in a Riemannian manifold. To appear in GAFA. The last version contanins the corrections and the additions suggested by the referee

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