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Isothermal Coordinates of W2,2 Immersions: A Counterexample Full article

Journal Proceedings of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics
ISSN: 0081-5438
Output data Year: 2024, Volume: 327, Number: 1, Pages: 251-267 Pages count : 17 DOI: 10.1134/s008154382406018x
Tags isothermal coordinates, conformal factor, immersions with square integrable second fundamental form
Authors Plotnikov P.I. 1
Affiliations
1 Lavrentyev Institute of Hydrodynamics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia

Abstract: We study isothermal coordinates for the immersions of two-dimensional manifolds into Euclidean space and consider a class of immersions with square integrable second fundamental form, which are also called immersions. It is a widespread statement in the literature that such immersions have isothermal coordinates with uniformly bounded logarithm of the conformal factor. We show that this is not the case: We give an example of an immersion of the two-dimensional sphere into three-dimensional Euclidean space for which the logarithm of the conformal factor is unbounded. The reason is that immersions with square integrable second fundamental form do not admit a smooth approximation. In other words, they do not satisfy the hypotheses of the Toro theorem on bi-Lipschitz conformal coordinates.
Cite: Plotnikov P.I.
Isothermal Coordinates of W2,2 Immersions: A Counterexample
Proceedings of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics. 2024. V.327. N1. P.251-267. DOI: 10.1134/s008154382406018x WOS Scopus OpenAlex
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Submitted: May 3, 2024
Accepted: Sep 12, 2024
Published print: Apr 1, 2025
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Web of science: WOS:001457341300005
Scopus: 2-s2.0-105001519319
OpenAlex: W4409078339
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