Abstract
The problem of the local summability of the sub-Riemannian mean curvature H of a hypersurface M in the Heisenberg group, or in more general Carnot groups, near the characteristic set of M arises naturally in several questions in geometric measure theory. We construct an example which shows that the sub-Riemannian mean curvature H of a C2 surface M in the Heisenberg group H1 in general fails to be integrable with respect to the Riemannian volume on M.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 811-821 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society |
| Volume | 140 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2012 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- First and second variation
- H-mean curvature
- Integration by parts
- Minimal surfaces
- Monotonicity of the H-perimeter
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Mathematics
- Applied Mathematics