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Sharp H\"older Regularity for Nirenberg's Complex Frobenius Theorem

Complex Variables 2022-02-17 v1 Analysis of PDEs Classical Analysis and ODEs Differential Geometry

Abstract

Nirenberg's famous complex Frobenius theorem gives necessary and sufficient conditions on a locally integrable structure for when the manifold is locally diffeomorphic to Rr×Cm×RNr2m\mathbb R^r\times\mathbb C^m\times \mathbb R^{N-r-2m} through a coordinate chart FF in such a way that the structure is locally spanned by Ft1,,Ftr,Fz1,,FzmF^*\frac\partial{\partial t^1},\dots,F^*\frac\partial{\partial t^r},F^*\frac\partial{\partial z^1},\dots,F^*\frac\partial{\partial z^m}, where we have given Rr×Cm×RNr2m\mathbb R^r\times\mathbb C^m \times\mathbb R^{N-r-2m} coordinates (t,z,s)(t,z,s). In this paper, we give the optimal H\"older-Zygmund regularity for the coordinate charts which achieve this realization. Namely, if the structure has H\"older-Zygmund regularity of order α>1\alpha>1, then the coordinate chart FF that maps to Rr×Cm×RNr2m\mathbb R^r\times\mathbb C^m \times\mathbb R^{N-r-2m} may be taken to have H\"older-Zygmund regularity of order α\alpha, and this is sharp. Furthermore, we can choose this FF in such a way that the vector fields Ft1,,Ftr,Fz1,,FzmF^*\frac\partial{\partial t^1},\dots,F^*\frac\partial{\partial t^r},F^*\frac\partial{\partial z^1},\dots,F^*\frac\partial{\partial z^m} on the original manifold have H\"older-Zygmund regularity of order αε\alpha-\varepsilon for every ε>0\varepsilon>0, and we give an example to show that the regularity for FzF^*\frac\partial{\partial z} is optimal.

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@article{arxiv.2202.07729,
  title  = {Sharp H\"older Regularity for Nirenberg's Complex Frobenius Theorem},
  author = {Liding Yao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.07729},
  year   = {2022}
}

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68 pages, including 10 pages of appendix

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