Abstract In this note, we prove that on a surface with Alexandrov’s curvature bounded below, the distance derives from a Riemannian metric whose components, for any p ∈ [1, 2), locally belong to W1,p out of a discrete singular set. This result is based on Reshetnyak’s work on the more general class of surfaces with bounded integral curvature.
{"title":"On the Regularity of Alexandrov Surfaces with Curvature Bounded Below","authors":"L. Ambrosio, J. Bertrand","doi":"10.1515/agms-2016-0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/agms-2016-0012","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this note, we prove that on a surface with Alexandrov’s curvature bounded below, the distance derives from a Riemannian metric whose components, for any p ∈ [1, 2), locally belong to W1,p out of a discrete singular set. This result is based on Reshetnyak’s work on the more general class of surfaces with bounded integral curvature.","PeriodicalId":48637,"journal":{"name":"Analysis and Geometry in Metric Spaces","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/agms-2016-0012","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67166588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract In this paper, we generalize to sub-Riemannian Carnot groups some classical results in the theory of minimal submanifolds. Our main results are for step 2 Carnot groups. In this case, we will prove the convex hull property and some “exclosure theorems” for H-minimal hypersurfaces of class C2 satisfying a Hörmander-type condition.
{"title":"Convex Hull Property and Exclosure Theorems for H-Minimal Hypersurfaces in Carnot Groups","authors":"F. Montefalcone","doi":"10.1515/agms-2016-0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/agms-2016-0008","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this paper, we generalize to sub-Riemannian Carnot groups some classical results in the theory of minimal submanifolds. Our main results are for step 2 Carnot groups. In this case, we will prove the convex hull property and some “exclosure theorems” for H-minimal hypersurfaces of class C2 satisfying a Hörmander-type condition.","PeriodicalId":48637,"journal":{"name":"Analysis and Geometry in Metric Spaces","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/agms-2016-0008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67166333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
By studying the group of rigid motions, $PSH(1)$, in the 3D-Heisenberg group $H_1$, we define the density and the measure for the sets of horizontal lines. We show that the volume of a convex domain $Dsubset H_1$ is equal to the integral of length of chord over all horizontal lines intersecting $D$. As the classical result in integral geometry, we also define the kinematic density for $PSH(1)$ and show the probability of randomly throwing a vector $v$ interesting the convex domain $Dsubset D_0$ under the condition that $v$ is contained in $D_0$. Both results show the relationship connecting the geometric probability and the natural geometric quantity in Cheng-Hwang-Malchiodi-Yang's work approached by the variational method.
{"title":"The kinematic formula in the 3D-Heisenberg group","authors":"Yen-Chang Huang","doi":"10.1515/agms-2016-0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/agms-2016-0020","url":null,"abstract":"By studying the group of rigid motions, $PSH(1)$, in the 3D-Heisenberg group $H_1$, we define the density and the measure for the sets of horizontal lines. We show that the volume of a convex domain $Dsubset H_1$ is equal to the integral of length of chord over all horizontal lines intersecting $D$. As the classical result in integral geometry, we also define the kinematic density for $PSH(1)$ and show the probability of randomly throwing a vector $v$ interesting the convex domain $Dsubset D_0$ under the condition that $v$ is contained in $D_0$. Both results show the relationship connecting the geometric probability and the natural geometric quantity in Cheng-Hwang-Malchiodi-Yang's work approached by the variational method.","PeriodicalId":48637,"journal":{"name":"Analysis and Geometry in Metric Spaces","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67166917","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract We establish trace theorems for function spaces defined on general Ahlfors regular metric spaces Z. The results cover the Triebel-Lizorkin spaces and the Besov spaces for smoothness indices s < 1, as well as the first order Hajłasz-Sobolev space M1,p(Z). They generalize the classical results from the Euclidean setting, since the traces of these function spaces onto any closed Ahlfors regular subset F ⊂ Z are Besov spaces defined intrinsically on F. Our method employs the definitions of the function spaces via hyperbolic fillings of the underlying metric space.
{"title":"Traces of Besov, Triebel-Lizorkin and Sobolev Spaces on Metric Spaces","authors":"E. Saksman, Tom'as Soto","doi":"10.1515/agms-2017-0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/agms-2017-0006","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract We establish trace theorems for function spaces defined on general Ahlfors regular metric spaces Z. The results cover the Triebel-Lizorkin spaces and the Besov spaces for smoothness indices s < 1, as well as the first order Hajłasz-Sobolev space M1,p(Z). They generalize the classical results from the Euclidean setting, since the traces of these function spaces onto any closed Ahlfors regular subset F ⊂ Z are Besov spaces defined intrinsically on F. Our method employs the definitions of the function spaces via hyperbolic fillings of the underlying metric space.","PeriodicalId":48637,"journal":{"name":"Analysis and Geometry in Metric Spaces","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/agms-2017-0006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67167084","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract We consider a ‘contracting boundary’ of a proper geodesic metric space consisting of equivalence classes of geodesic rays that behave like geodesics in a hyperbolic space.We topologize this set via the Gromov product, in analogy to the topology of the boundary of a hyperbolic space. We show that when the space is not hyperbolic, quasi-isometries do not necessarily give homeomorphisms of this boundary. Continuity can fail even when the spaces are required to be CAT(0). We show this by constructing an explicit example.
{"title":"Quasi-Isometries Need Not Induce Homeomorphisms of Contracting Boundaries with the Gromov Product Topology","authors":"Christopher H. Cashen","doi":"10.1515/agms-2016-0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/agms-2016-0011","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract We consider a ‘contracting boundary’ of a proper geodesic metric space consisting of equivalence classes of geodesic rays that behave like geodesics in a hyperbolic space.We topologize this set via the Gromov product, in analogy to the topology of the boundary of a hyperbolic space. We show that when the space is not hyperbolic, quasi-isometries do not necessarily give homeomorphisms of this boundary. Continuity can fail even when the spaces are required to be CAT(0). We show this by constructing an explicit example.","PeriodicalId":48637,"journal":{"name":"Analysis and Geometry in Metric Spaces","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67166525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract Diversities are like metric spaces, except that every finite subset, instead of just every pair of points, is assigned a value. Just as there is a theory of minimal distortion embeddings of fiite metric spaces into L1, there is a similar, yet undeveloped, theory for embedding finite diversities into the diversity analogue of L1 spaces. In the metric case, it iswell known that an n-point metric space can be embedded into L1 withO(log n) distortion. For diversities, the optimal distortion is unknown. Here, we establish the surprising result that symmetric diversities, those in which the diversity (value) assigned to a set depends only on its cardinality, can be embedded in L1 with constant distortion.
{"title":"Constant Distortion Embeddings of Symmetric Diversities","authors":"David Bryant, P. Tupper","doi":"10.1515/agms-2016-0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/agms-2016-0016","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Diversities are like metric spaces, except that every finite subset, instead of just every pair of points, is assigned a value. Just as there is a theory of minimal distortion embeddings of fiite metric spaces into L1, there is a similar, yet undeveloped, theory for embedding finite diversities into the diversity analogue of L1 spaces. In the metric case, it iswell known that an n-point metric space can be embedded into L1 withO(log n) distortion. For diversities, the optimal distortion is unknown. Here, we establish the surprising result that symmetric diversities, those in which the diversity (value) assigned to a set depends only on its cardinality, can be embedded in L1 with constant distortion.","PeriodicalId":48637,"journal":{"name":"Analysis and Geometry in Metric Spaces","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67167174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract We investigate properties which remain invariant under the action of quasi-Möbius maps of quasimetric spaces. A metric space is called doubling with constant D if every ball of finite radius can be covered by at most D balls of half the radius. It is shown that the doubling property is an invariant property for (quasi-)Möbius maps. Additionally it is shown that the property of uniform disconnectedness is an invariant for (quasi-)Möbius maps as well.
{"title":"Some Invariant Properties of Quasi-Möbius Maps","authors":"Loreno Heer","doi":"10.1515/agms-2017-0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/agms-2017-0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract We investigate properties which remain invariant under the action of quasi-Möbius maps of quasimetric spaces. A metric space is called doubling with constant D if every ball of finite radius can be covered by at most D balls of half the radius. It is shown that the doubling property is an invariant property for (quasi-)Möbius maps. Additionally it is shown that the property of uniform disconnectedness is an invariant for (quasi-)Möbius maps as well.","PeriodicalId":48637,"journal":{"name":"Analysis and Geometry in Metric Spaces","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/agms-2017-0004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67166993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract We prove that a closed surface with a CAT(κ) metric has Hausdorff dimension = 2, and that there are uniform upper and lower bounds on the two-dimensional Hausdorff measure of small metric balls. We also discuss a connection between this uniformity condition and some results on the dynamics of the geodesic flow for such surfaces. Finally,we give a short proof of topological entropy rigidity for geodesic flow on certain CAT(−1) manifolds.
{"title":"On the Hausdorff Dimension of CAT(κ) Surfaces","authors":"D. Constantine, J.-F. Lafont","doi":"10.1515/agms-2016-0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/agms-2016-0010","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract We prove that a closed surface with a CAT(κ) metric has Hausdorff dimension = 2, and that there are uniform upper and lower bounds on the two-dimensional Hausdorff measure of small metric balls. We also discuss a connection between this uniformity condition and some results on the dynamics of the geodesic flow for such surfaces. Finally,we give a short proof of topological entropy rigidity for geodesic flow on certain CAT(−1) manifolds.","PeriodicalId":48637,"journal":{"name":"Analysis and Geometry in Metric Spaces","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67166467","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract A measure is 1-rectifiable if there is a countable union of finite length curves whose complement has zero measure. We characterize 1-rectifiable Radon measures μ in n-dimensional Euclidean space for all n ≥ 2 in terms of positivity of the lower density and finiteness of a geometric square function, which loosely speaking, records in an L2 gauge the extent to which μ admits approximate tangent lines, or has rapidly growing density ratios, along its support. In contrast with the classical theorems of Besicovitch, Morse and Randolph, and Moore, we do not assume an a priori relationship between μ and 1-dimensional Hausdorff measure H1. We also characterize purely 1-unrectifiable Radon measures, i.e. locally finite measures that give measure zero to every finite length curve. Characterizations of this form were originally conjectured to exist by P. Jones. Along the way, we develop an L2 variant of P. Jones’ traveling salesman construction, which is of independent interest.
{"title":"Multiscale Analysis of 1-rectifiable Measures II: Characterizations","authors":"Matthew Badger, Raanan Schul","doi":"10.1515/agms-2017-0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/agms-2017-0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract A measure is 1-rectifiable if there is a countable union of finite length curves whose complement has zero measure. We characterize 1-rectifiable Radon measures μ in n-dimensional Euclidean space for all n ≥ 2 in terms of positivity of the lower density and finiteness of a geometric square function, which loosely speaking, records in an L2 gauge the extent to which μ admits approximate tangent lines, or has rapidly growing density ratios, along its support. In contrast with the classical theorems of Besicovitch, Morse and Randolph, and Moore, we do not assume an a priori relationship between μ and 1-dimensional Hausdorff measure H1. We also characterize purely 1-unrectifiable Radon measures, i.e. locally finite measures that give measure zero to every finite length curve. Characterizations of this form were originally conjectured to exist by P. Jones. Along the way, we develop an L2 variant of P. Jones’ traveling salesman construction, which is of independent interest.","PeriodicalId":48637,"journal":{"name":"Analysis and Geometry in Metric Spaces","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/agms-2017-0001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67166932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract We apply Gromov’s ham sandwich method to get: (1) domain monotonicity (up to a multiplicative constant factor); (2) reverse domain monotonicity (up to a multiplicative constant factor); and (3) universal inequalities for Neumann eigenvalues of the Laplacian on bounded convex domains in Euclidean space.
{"title":"Applications of the ‘Ham Sandwich Theorem’ to Eigenvalues of the Laplacian","authors":"Kei Funano","doi":"10.1515/agms-2016-0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/agms-2016-0015","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract We apply Gromov’s ham sandwich method to get: (1) domain monotonicity (up to a multiplicative constant factor); (2) reverse domain monotonicity (up to a multiplicative constant factor); and (3) universal inequalities for Neumann eigenvalues of the Laplacian on bounded convex domains in Euclidean space.","PeriodicalId":48637,"journal":{"name":"Analysis and Geometry in Metric Spaces","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67166281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}