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Paolo Valentini

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Legendrian cycles and Reilly-type variational formulae for $F_nW^{2,n}$-sets

We construct a natural Legendrian cycle $\mathcal{N}_\mathcal{S}$ associated with any $F_nW^{2,n}$-set $\mathcal{S}$, that is, a closed set locally described as a finite union of graphs of $(C^0\cap W^{2,n})$-regular functions with integer multiplicity. The construction relies on the fact that $\mathcal{S}$ is countably $\mathcal{H}^n$-rectifiable of class $C^2$ and, at $\mathcal{H}^n$-almost every point $p\in\mathcal{S}$, the proximal unit normal bundle at $p$, denoted by $\operatorname{nor}(\mathcal{S},p)$, consists of exactly two antipodal vectors $\{u,-u\}$, even in the presence of overlapping $W^{2,n}$-graphs. As a consequence, we prove Reilly-type variational formulae for the higher-order mean curvature integrals of $\mathcal{S}$, extending the classical results of Reilly to this non-smooth setting.

math.DG

Alexandrov sphere theorems for $ W^{2,n} $-hypersurfaces

In this paper we extend Alexandrov's sphere theorems for higher-order mean curvature functions to $ W^{2,n} $-regular hypersurfaces under a general degenerate elliptic condition. The proof is based on the extension of the Montiel-Ros argument to the aforementioned class of hypersurfaces and on the existence of suitable Legendrian cycles over them. Using the latter we can also prove that there are $ n $-dimensional Legendrian cycles with $ 2n $-dimensional support, hence answering a question by Rataj and Zaehle. Finally we provide a very general version of the umbilicality theorem for Sobolev-type hypersurfaces.

math.DG