RIEMANNIAN CENTER OF MASS AND MOLLIFIER SMOOTHING
RIEMANNIAN CENTER OF MASS AND MOLLIFIER SMOOTHING
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DOI:
10.1002/cpa.3160300502
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发表时间:
1977-01-01
影响因子:
3
通讯作者:
KARCHER, H
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作者:
KARCHER, H
It is rather obvious how to generalize the classical mollifier smoothing (convolution with narrow kernels) to maps from Riemannian manifolds into lineur spaces. We use the center of mass which was introduced in [6] to generalize the mollifier smoothing to maps between Riemannian manifolds in Section 3. The construction is so well adapted to the metric that the standard results about approximation or about preservation of Lipschitz estimates carry over (Section 4). In Section 5 we give a sufficient condition under which the smoothing of a bi-Lipschitz map has maximal rank. Shikata’s theorem is an immediate corollary; in fact we obtain a sharper version than was previously known. We have made a special effort to make the paper readable for people with not too much background in differential geometry. In particular, analysts should read the just mentioned Sections 3 and 5 first. We start in Section 1 with a simplified treatment of the center of mass and describe in Section 2 some applications which illustrate its use. Also, the differential-geometric arguments are not scattered through the paper but collected in three appendices. In Appendix A we prove all the Jacobi estimates which are needed. We need known and new estimates; the known ones are proved in a somewhat generalized form. We draw attention to Corollary A5 and Proposition A6 which contain precise information about the derivative and the rotation of Jacobi fields. In Appendix B we briefly explain how Jacobi fields are used to describe geometric constructions. Appendix C combines Appendices A and B to prove a generalization of well known arc length comparison theorems (see C2), to compare parallel translation in the tangent space with Riemannian parallel translation (in C2. 2) and to estimate not so frequently used derivatives of the Riemannian exponential map (in C3). In connection with this work I profited from discussions with J. Eschenburg and with the following guests of the Sonderforschungsbereich: Y. Shikata, K. Shiohama, K. Grove, HC Im Hof. Between 1966 and 1968 I spent two fruitful years at the Courant Institute of New York University; in retrospect that influence is clear in my work. I am grateful for all those