5.1.2 Exact Lagrangians under weak regularity [04E4]
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5.1.2 Exact Lagrangians under weak regularity
We need to ensure the class of Lagrangians in the variational setup is closed under the varifold/current topology. A trivial observation is
Lemma 5.6.
Let be closed Lagrangian integral currents, and suppose in the current topology, then the Lagrangian/quantitative almost calibratedness conditions pass to the limit.
Let be a closed Lagrangian integral current, and be an function on . We say the exact condition holds in the weak sense, if for any compactly supported test -form ,
| (54) |
To make sense of the RHS, notice the rectifiability of allows the integration of the -valued -form . Equivalently, the normal current has distributional derivative .
Remark 5.7.
The examples of immersed Lagrangians show that we cannot require to have a continuous extension to , so -regularity is the best we can impose on .
Lemma 5.7.
All Lagrangians are assumed to be contained in a fixed bounded region of , homologous to , and are quantitatively almost calibrated. If is a sequence of exact Lagrangians with potential , such that are uniformly bounded in . Then up to subsequence, there is a Lagrangian with potential , such that and as currents.
Proof.
By Lemma 2.1 the volume mass is uniformly upper bounded. By Federer-Fleming compactness, subsequentially in the flat topology for some Lagrangian integral current homologous to . This implies for any test function , even though may be strictly greater than , as we do not assume varifold convergence.
We focus on a coordinate ball. The -currents can be viewed as a collection of signed measures . Each of these measures are bounded by the measure
whose total mass is uniformly bounded for all . By the weak compactness of measures, subsequentially these signed measures converge, and the limiting signed measures have Radon-Nykodim derivatives with respect to the measure :
Thus inside the coordinate ball, the currents converge to :
where is any test -form.
Now is an integral current, so -a.e. there is a well defined tangent space and a local integer multiplicity . Recall a blow up limit of an -current at a point refers to a subsequential limit of the currents on as :
For a.e , there is a unique blow up limit for the current , which is
whose component signed measures are just constant multiples of the Lebesgue measure on .
Observe that the weak formulation (54) passes to the limit:
Thus the blow up limit of at a.e. is in fact a closed current. Consequently, the polyvector
must be a pure tensor lying in . Hence
for some -function . ∎