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Conformally Invariant Variational Problems. - SAM

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Having defined weak Willmore immersion that will naturally<br />

come in our minimization procedure it is a fair question to ask<br />

whether solutions to this elliptic non-linear system for which we<br />

have seen that it is critical in two dimensions for the Willmore<br />

energyaresmooth. Orinotherwordsweareaskingthefollowing<br />

question :<br />

Are weak Willmore immersions smooth Willmore immersions ?<br />

We will answer positively to that question in the next sections.<br />

X.6.6 Isothermal Coordinates with Estimates.<br />

In the previous subsections we explained how to produce locally<br />

and globallyconformalparametrizations,Coulombgauges,<br />

for Lipschitz immersions with L 2 −bounded second fundamental<br />

forms. This has been obtained in a qualitative way, without<br />

any care of establishing estimates. The goal of the present subsection<br />

is to remedy to it in giving L ∞ controls of the metric<br />

in conformal parametrization by the mean of several quantities<br />

(L 2 −norm of the second fundamental form, area of the image,<br />

distance of the images of 2 distinct points) and under the assumption<br />

that the L 2 −norm of the second fundamental form is<br />

below some threshold. Precisely we shall prove the following<br />

result.<br />

Theorem X.13. [Control of local isothermal coordinates]<br />

Let Φ ⃗ be a lipschitz conformal immersion 66 from the disc D 2 into<br />

R m . Assume ∫<br />

|∇⃗n ⃗Φ | 2 < 8π/3 . (X.164)<br />

D 2<br />

66 A Lipschitz conformal map from D 2 into R m satisfying (X.144)<br />

175

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