A Remark on the Non-Compactness of $W^{2,d}$ Immersions of $d$-Dimensional Hypersurfaces

Abstract

We consider the continuous $W^{2,d}$ immersions of $d$-dimensional hypersurfaces in ${\mathbb{R}}^{d+1}$ with second fundamental forms uniformly bounded in $L^d$. Two results are obtained: first, a family of such immersions is constructed, whose limit fails to be an immersion of a manifold. This addresses the endpoint cases in J. Langer and P. Breuning. Second, under the additional assumption that the Gauss map is slowly oscillating, we prove that any family of such immersions subsequentially converges to a set locally parametrised by Hölder functions.

10pp