TY  - JOUR
A1  - Menne, Ulrich
T1  - Sobolev functions on varifolds
T2  - Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society
N2  - This paper introduces first-order Sobolev spaces on certain rectifiable varifolds. These complete locally convex spaces are contained in the generally non-linear class of generalised weakly differentiable functions and share key functional analytic properties with their Euclidean counterparts. Assuming the varifold to satisfy a uniform lower density bound and a dimensionally critical summability condition on its mean curvature, the following statements hold. Firstly, continuous and compact embeddings of Sobolev spaces into Lebesgue spaces and spaces of continuous functions are available. Secondly, the geodesic distance associated to the varifold is a continuous, not necessarily Holder continuous Sobolev function with bounded derivative. Thirdly, if the varifold additionally has bounded mean curvature and finite measure, then the present Sobolev spaces are isomorphic to those previously available for finite Radon measures yielding many new results for those classes as well. Suitable versions of the embedding results obtained for Sobolev functions hold in the larger class of generalised weakly differentiable functions.
Y1  - 2016
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/44668
SN  - 0024-6115
SN  - 1460-244X
VL  - 113
SP  - 725
EP  - 774
PB  - Oxford Univ. Press
CY  - Oxford
ER  -