T. Toro - Geometry of measures and applications (Part 3)

In the 1920's Besicovitch studied linearly measurable sets in the plane, that is sets with locally finite "length". The basic question he addressed was whether the infinitesimal properties of the "length" of a set E in the plane yield geometric information on E itself. This simple question marks the beginning of the study of the geometry of measures and the associated field known as Geometric Measure Theory (GMT).

In this series of lectures we will present some of the main results in the area concerning the regularity of the support of a measure in terms of the behavior of its density or in terms of its tangent structure. We will discuss applications to PDEs, free boundary regularity problem and harmonic analysis. The aim is that the GMT component of the mini-course will be self contained.

References:

P. Mattila. Geometry of sets and measures in Euclidean spaces, Cambridge Stud. Adv. Math. 44, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1995.

D. Preiss, Geometry of measures in Rn: distribution, rectifiability, and densities, Ann. of Math. 125 (1987), 537–643.

On the smoothness of Hölder doubling measures, D. Preiss, X. Tolsa and T. Toro, Calculus of Variations and PDE's 35 (2009), 339-363.

Boundary Structure and size in terms of interior and exterior harmonic measures in higher dimensions with C. Kenig, D. Preiss and T. Toro, J. Amer. Math. Soc. 22 (2009), 771-796.

Regularity of Almost Minimizers with Free Boundary,G. David, and T. Toro to appear in Calculus of Variations and PDEs.

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[ACF] H. W. Alt, L. A. Caffarelli & A. Friedman, Variational problems with two phases and their free boundaries, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 282 (1984), 431–461.

[CJK] L. A. Caffarelli, D. Jerison & C. Kenig, Global energy minimizers for free boundary problems and full regularity in three dimensions. Non-compact problems at the in- tersection of geometry, analysis, and topology, 8397, Contemp. Math., 350, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 2004.

[DeJ] D. DeSilva & D. Jerison, A singular energy minimizing free boundary. J. Reine Angew. Math. 635 (2009), 121