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Title: A priori bounds for geodesic diameter. Part III. A Sobolev-Poincaré inequality and applications to a variety of geometric variational problems
(Submitted on 16 Sep 2017 (v1), last revised 27 Mar 2024 (this version, v2))
Abstract: Based on a novel type of Sobolev-Poincar\'e inequality (for generalised weakly differentiable functions on varifolds), we establish a finite upper bound of the geodesic diameter of generalised compact connected surfaces-with-boundary of arbitrary dimension in Euclidean space in terms of the mean curvatures of the surface and its boundary. Our varifold setting includes smooth immersions, surfaces with finite Willmore energy, two-convex hypersurfaces in level-set mean curvature flow, integral currents with prescribed mean curvature vector, area minimising integral chains with coefficients in a complete normed commutative group, varifold solutions to Plateau's problem furnished by min-max methods or by Brakke flow, and compact sets solving Plateau problems based on \v{C}ech homology. Due to the generally inevitable presence of singularities, path-connectedness was previously known neither for the class of varifolds (even in the absence of boundary) nor for the solutions to the Plateau problems considered.
Submission history
From: Christian Scharrer [view email][v1] Sat, 16 Sep 2017 12:00:04 GMT (39kb,D)
[v2] Wed, 27 Mar 2024 12:45:59 GMT (50kb,D)
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