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Q-valued Functions Minimizing Dirichlet's Integral and the Regularity of Area-minimizing Rectifiable Currents Up to Codimension 2
出版World Scientific, 2000
主題Mathematics / CalculusMathematics / Vector Analysis
ISBN98102410899789810241087
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=8_nlkvpkMF0C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Fred Almgren exploited the excess method for proving regularity theorems in the calculus of variations. His techniques yielded H”lder continuous differentiability except for a small closed singular set. In the sixties and seventies Almgren refined and generalized his methods. Between 1974 and 1984 he wrote a 1,700-page proof that was his most ambitious development of his ground-breaking ideas. Originally, this monograph was available only as a three-volume work of limited circulation. The entire text is faithfully reproduced here.This book gives a complete proof of the interior regularity of an area-minimizing rectifiable current up to Hausdorff codimension 2. The argument uses the theory of Q-valued functions, which is developed in detail. For example, this work shows how first variation estimates from squash and squeeze deformations yield a monotonicity theorem for the normalized frequency of oscillation of a Q-valued function that minimizes a generalized Dirichlet integral. The principal features of the book include an extension theorem analogous to Kirszbraun's theorem and theorems on the approximation in mass of nearly flat mass-minimizing rectifiable currents by graphs and images of Lipschitz Q-valued functions.