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Proof. [04E8]

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Proof.

By Lemma 2.1 the volume mass is uniformly upper bounded. By Federer-Fleming compactness, subsequentially Li→LL_{i}\to L in the flat topology for some Lagrangian integral current LL homologous to L0L_{0}. This implies ∫Lkg​Re​Ω→∫Lg​Re​Ω\int_{L_{k}}g\text{Re}\Omega\to\int_{L}g\text{Re}\Omega for any C∞C^{\infty} test function gg, even though lim infiM​a​s​s​(Li)\liminf_{i}Mass(L_{i}) may be strictly greater than M​a​s​s​(L)Mass(L), as we do not assume varifold convergence.

We focus on a coordinate ball. The nn-currents fLk​Lkf_{L_{k}}L_{k} can be viewed as a collection of (2​nn){2n\choose n} signed measures g↦∫LkfLk​g​d​xi1∧…​d​xing\mapsto\int_{L_{k}}f_{L_{k}}gdx_{i_{1}}\wedge\ldots dx_{i_{n}}. Each of these measures are bounded by the measure

g↦(sup‖fLi‖L∞)​Csin⁡ϵ​∫Lkg​Re​Ω,g\mapsto(\sup\left\lVert f_{L_{i}}\right\rVert_{L^{\infty}})\frac{C}{\sin\epsilon}\int_{L_{k}}g\text{Re}\Omega,

whose total mass is uniformly bounded for all kk. By the weak compactness of measures, subsequentially these signed measures converge, and the limiting signed measures have L∞L^{\infty} Radon-Nykodim derivatives ai1​…​in​(x)a_{i_{1}\ldots i_{n}}(x) with respect to the measure g↦∫Lg​Re​Ωg\mapsto\int_{L}g\text{Re}\Omega:

∫LkfLk​g​d​xi1∧…​d​xin→∫Lg​ai1​…​in​Re​Ω.\int_{L_{k}}f_{L_{k}}gdx_{i_{1}}\wedge\ldots dx_{i_{n}}\to\int_{L}ga_{i_{1}\ldots i_{n}}\text{Re}\Omega.

Thus inside the coordinate ball, the currents fLk​Lkf_{L_{k}}L_{k} converge to limkfLk​Lk\lim_{k}f_{L_{k}}L_{k}:

η↦∫L∑i1<i2​…<inη(∂i1∧…∂in)ai1​…​inReΩ,\eta\mapsto\int_{L}\sum_{i_{1}<i_{2}\ldots<i_{n}}\eta(\partial_{i_{1}}\wedge\ldots\partial_{i_{n}})a_{i_{1}\ldots i_{n}}\text{Re}\Omega,

where η\eta is any test nn-form.

Now LL is an integral current, so ℋn\mathcal{H}^{n}-a.e. y∈supp​(L)y\in\text{supp}(L) there is a well defined tangent space Ty​LT_{y}L and a local integer multiplicity Θ⁡(y)\Theta(y). Recall a blow up limit of an nn-current NN at a point y∈Xy\in X refers to a subsequential limit of the currents on Ty​XT_{y}X as r→0r\to 0:

η↦∫Nrescaley,r∗​η,rescaley,r:x↦xr​ in the geodesic coordinates around y.\eta\mapsto\int_{N}\text{rescale}_{y,r}^{*}\eta,\quad\text{rescale}_{y,r}:x\mapsto\frac{x}{r}\text{ in the geodesic coordinates around $y$}.

For a.e y∈supp​(L)y\in\text{supp}(L), there is a unique blow up limit for the current limkfLk​Lk\lim_{k}f_{L_{k}}L_{k}, which is

η↦∫Ty​L∑η(∂i1∧…∂in)ai1​…​in(y)Θ(y)ReΩ,\eta\mapsto\int_{T_{y}L}\sum\eta(\partial_{i_{1}}\wedge\ldots\partial_{i_{n}})a_{i_{1}\ldots i_{n}}(y)\Theta(y)\text{Re}\Omega,

whose (2​nn){2n\choose n} component signed measures are just constant multiples of the Lebesgue measure on Ty​XT_{y}X.

Observe that the weak formulation (54) passes to the limit:

∫Lλ∧χ=−(limkfLk​Lk)​(𝑑χ).\int_{L}\lambda\wedge\chi=-(\lim_{k}f_{L_{k}}L_{k})(d\chi).

Thus the blow up limit of limkfLk​Lk\lim_{k}f_{L_{k}}L_{k} at a.e. y∈supp​(L)y\in\text{supp}(L) is in fact a closed current. Consequently, the polyvector

∑i1<i2​…<inai1​…​in∂i1∧…∂in\sum_{i_{1}<i_{2}\ldots<i_{n}}a_{i_{1}\ldots i_{n}}\partial_{i_{1}}\wedge\ldots\partial_{i_{n}}

must be a pure tensor lying in Λn​Ty​L⊂Λn​Ty​X\Lambda^{n}T_{y}L\subset\Lambda^{n}T_{y}X. Hence

limkfLk​Lk=fL​L\lim_{k}f_{L_{k}}L_{k}=f_{L}L

for some L∞L^{\infty}-function fLf_{L}. ∎

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