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Trudy Matematicheskogo Instituta imeni V.A. Steklova, Forthcoming paper (Mi tm4443)  

Isothermal coordinates of $W^{2,2}$ immersions. Counterexample

P. I. Plotnikov

Lavrentyev Institute of Hydrodynamics of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk
Abstract: We study isothermal coordinates for immersions of two-dimensional manifolds into Euclidean space. We consider a class of immersions with a square integrable second fundamental form, which are also called $W^{2,2}$ immersions. In the literature, it is widely elieved that such immersions have isothermal coordinates with a uniformly bounded logarithm of the conformal factor. In this paper, we show that this is not true. We give an example of an immersion of a two-dimensional sphere into three-dimensional Euclidean space, for which the logarithm of the conformal factor is unbounded. The reason for this phenomenon is that immersions with a square-integrable second quadratic form do not admit a smooth approximations. In other words, they do not satisfy the conditions of the Toro theorem on bi-Lipschitz conformal coordinates.
Keywords: isothermal coordinates, conformal factor, immersions with square integrable second fundamental form
Received: May 3, 2024
Revised: June 14, 2024
Accepted: September 12, 2024
Document Type: Article
UDC: 517, 532
MSC: 49Q10, 53C18, 53Z10
Language: Russian
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