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Conformally Invariant Variational Problems. - SAM

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We close this section by stating a conjecture formulated by<br />

Stefan d’Hildebrandt in the late 1970s.<br />

Conjecture VI.1. [Hil] [Hil2] The critical points with finite energy<br />

of acoerciveconformallyinvariantLagrangianwithquadractic<br />

growth are Hölder continuous.<br />

The remainder of these lecture notes shall be devoted to establishing<br />

this conjecture. Although its resolution is closely related<br />

to the compactness questions (i) and (ii) previously formulated<br />

on page 9, for lack of time, we shall not dive into the<br />

study of this point.<br />

Our proof will begin by recalling the first partial answers to<br />

Hildebrandt’s conjecture provided by H. Wente and F. Hélein,<br />

and the importance in their approach of the rôle played by conservations<br />

laws and integration by compensation.<br />

Then, in the last section, we will investigate the theory of linear<br />

elliptic systems with antisymmetricpotentials, and show how to<br />

apply it to the resolution of Hildebrandt’s conjecture.<br />

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