Borisov-type criticality conjecture for positively curved surfaces

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Let Σ\Sigma be a 22-dimensional compact Riemannian manifold, possibly with boundary, with positive Gauss curvature. A C1,αC^{1,\alpha} isometric embedding is an isometric embedding of class C1,αC^{1,\alpha}, and an image is locally convex if for every pΣp\in\Sigma there is a neighborhood UU such that v(U)v(U) is convex. Borisov-type criticality conjecture.

(a) For any α>12\alpha>\frac{1}{2}, the image of any C1,αC^{1,\alpha} isometric embedding vv of Σ\Sigma in R3\mathbb R^3 is locally convex.

(b) For any α<12\alpha<\frac{1}{2}, there is a C1,αC^{1,\alpha} isometric embedding vv of Σ\Sigma in R3\mathbb R^3 which is not locally convex; in fact, any short embedding can be uniformly approximated by C1,αC^{1,\alpha} isometric embeddings. This conjecture would give a stronger form of the criticality of the Hölder exponent 12\frac{1}{2} for isometric embeddings of positively curved surfaces. The supplied text reports no resolution.

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Camillo De Lellis and Dominik Inauen, “C^1,α Isometric Embeddings of Polar Caps”, arXiv:1809.04161 (2019).

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