Curvature estimates and compactness theorems in 3-manifolds for surfaces that are stationary for parametric elliptic functionals
Curvature estimates and compactness theorems in 3-manifolds for surfaces that are stationary for parametric elliptic functionals
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DOI:
10.1007/bf01388908
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发表时间:
1987-06
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3.1
通讯作者:
B. White
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作者:
B. White
Let N be a three dimensional riemannian manifold and go a function that assigns a real number go (x, v) to each xeN and unit vector v in the tangent space to N at x. Then go defines a functional on surfaces as follows:(,) go (M)=~ gO (x, v (x)) dx x~ M where v (x) is the unit normal to M at x and the integration is with respect to surface area on M. Note if gO is even in that gO (x, v)-gO (x,-v), then (,) makes sense even if M is non-orientable. We say that M is gO-stationary if it satisfies the Euler-Lagrange equations for gO. For example, if gO (x, v)-1, then gO (M) is the area of M, and M is gO-stationary if and only if M is a minimal surface. In this paper we prove curvature estimates and compactness theorems for regular gO-stationary surfaces provided gO is elliptic, ie if for some 2> 0,(gO (x, v/[v [)-2) Iv [is a convex function of veTan x N. For example we proveTheorem0./j gO is an even elliptic integrand, gO and D2gO are C 2'~, N is a compact maniJold with strictly gO-convex boundary, and M is an embedded gO-stationary surface with OM c ON, then the principal curvatures oJ" M are bounded by a constant depending only on gO, N, the area and genus of M,[[0M [[2,=, and the" embeddedness" of? M, ie