Math Seminars

S. Ivanov

Tangents and area of surfaces in L^\infty spaces


Some inverse boundary problems for Riemannian manifolds can be reformulated in terms of area minimality of Lipschitz surfaces in L^\infty-type Banach spaces. However, due to the lack of Rademacher's Theorem, it is not trivial to define what is the area of such a surface. I will talk about one possible definition, which plays well with both intrinsic and extrinsic geometry of a surface.