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Relating diameter and mean curvature for varifolds

Abstract

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The main results of this thesis are formulated in a class of surfaces (varifolds) generalizing closed and connected smooth submanifolds of Euclidean space which allows singularities. Given an indecomposable varifold with dimension at least two in some Euclidean space such that the first variation is locally bounded, the total variation is absolutely continuous with respect to the weight measure, the density of the weight measure is at least one outside a set of weight measure zero and the generalized mean curvature is locally summable to a natural power (dimension of the varifold minus one) with respect to the weight measure. The thesis presents an improved estimate of the set where the lower density is small in terms of the one dimensional Hausdorff measure. Moreover, if the support of the weight measure is compact, then the intrinsic diameter with respect to the support of the weight measure is estimated in terms of the generalized mean curvature. This estimate is in analogy to the diameter control for closed connected manifolds smoothly immersed in some Euclidean space of Peter Topping. Previously, it was not known whether the hypothesis in this thesis implies that two points in the support of the weight measure have finite geodesic distance.

Degree

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Level thesis:degree_level
master
Grantor dc:publisher
Universität Potsdam
Year
2016

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Scharrer, Christian
Contributors dc:contributor
  • Menne, Ulrich

Subjects

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Rights

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Statement dc:rights
  • Keine öffentliche Lizenz: Unter Urheberrechtsschutz

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oai:kobv.de-opus4-uni-potsdam:9701

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Scharrer, Christian. Relating diameter and mean curvature for varifolds. master thesis, Universität Potsdam, 2016. https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/9701