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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
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