Fine Level Set Structure of Flat Isometric Immersions
Fine Level Set Structure of Flat Isometric Immersions
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平面等距浸没的精细水平集结构
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2011
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Peter Hornung
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作者:
Peter Hornung
A result by Pogorelov asserts that C1 isometric immersions u of a bounded domain $${S subset mathbb R^2}$$ into $${mathbb {R}^3}$$ whose normal takes values in a set of zero area enjoy the following regularity property: the gradient $${f :=
abla u}$$ is ‘developable’ in the sense that the nondegenerate level sets of f consist of straight line segments intersecting the boundary of S at both endpoints. Motivated by applications in nonlinear elasticity, we study the level set structure of such f when S is an arbitrary bounded Lipschitz domain. We show that f can be approximated by uniformly bounded maps with a simplified level set structure. We also show that the domain S can be decomposed (up to a controlled remainder) into finitely many subdomains, each of which admits a global line of curvature parametrization.