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Main Author: Bernard, Yann
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15032
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author Bernard, Yann
author_facet Bernard, Yann
contents We discuss a large class of conformally invariant curvature energies for immersed hypersurfaces of dimension 4. The class under study includes various examples that have appeared in the recent literature and which arise from different contexts. We show that under natural small-energy hypotheses, critical points satisfy improved energy estimates. Nearly all the PDEs which we consider are quasilinear and fourth-order in the mean curvature. We approach the problem à la T. Rivière by generating first from Noether's theorem divergence-free "potentials", and then by exhibiting an underlying analytically favourable algebraic structure relating them. We also consider local Palais-Smale sequences and show they converge to a solution of a constrained Euler-Lagrange equation with Lagrange multiplier appearing in the form of a TT-tensor.
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spellingShingle Analysis of Critical Points of Conformally Invariant Curvature Energies in 4d
Bernard, Yann
Differential Geometry
35G50, 53B20, 53B25, 53C42, 53C21
We discuss a large class of conformally invariant curvature energies for immersed hypersurfaces of dimension 4. The class under study includes various examples that have appeared in the recent literature and which arise from different contexts. We show that under natural small-energy hypotheses, critical points satisfy improved energy estimates. Nearly all the PDEs which we consider are quasilinear and fourth-order in the mean curvature. We approach the problem à la T. Rivière by generating first from Noether's theorem divergence-free "potentials", and then by exhibiting an underlying analytically favourable algebraic structure relating them. We also consider local Palais-Smale sequences and show they converge to a solution of a constrained Euler-Lagrange equation with Lagrange multiplier appearing in the form of a TT-tensor.
title Analysis of Critical Points of Conformally Invariant Curvature Energies in 4d
topic Differential Geometry
35G50, 53B20, 53B25, 53C42, 53C21
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15032