Corrugated Versus Smooth Uniqueness and Stability of Negatively Curved Isometric Immersions

Abstract

We prove uniqueness of smooth isometric immersions within the class of negatively curved corrugated two-dimensional immersions embedded into ${\mathbb{R}}^3$. The main tool we use is the relative entropy method employed in the setting of differential geometry for the Gauss-Codazzi system. The result allows us to compare also two solutions to the Gauss-Codazzi system that correspond to a smooth and a $C^{1,1}$ isometric immersion of not necessarily the same metric and prove continuous dependence of their second fundamental forms in terms of the metric and initial data in $L^2$.

18 pages, 1 figure, Quarterly of Applied Mathematics (accepted)