Hausdorff measure on $n$-dimensional manifolds in $\mathbb R^m$ and $n$-dimensional variations
A. V. Potepun Mathematics and Mechanics Faculty, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
Abstract:
If
$f\colon[a;b]\to\mathbb R^m$ is an injective continuous mapping and
$f_1,\dots,f_m$ are coordinate functions of
$f$, then the curve
$f([a;b])$ is rectifiable if and only if the variations of all
$f_k$ are finite. By Jordan's theorem for the length of the curve we have
$$
V_{f_i}([a;b])\le l(f([a;b]))\le\sum_{k=1}^mV_{f_k}([a;b]),\quad i=1,\dots,m.
$$
The length
$l(f([a;b]))$ is
$H_1(f([a;b]))$, where
$H_1$ is one-dimensional Hausdorff measure in
$\mathbb R^m$.
In this article, the notion of the variation
$V_f[a;b]$ of a function
$$
f\colon[a;b]\to\mathbb R
$$
is generalized to the variation
$V_f(A)$ of a continuous mapping
$f\colon G\to\mathbb R^n$, where
$G$ is an open subset of
$\mathbb R^n$, on a set
$A\subset G$,
$A=\bigcup_{i\in I}K_i$, where
$I$ is countable, all
$K_i$ are compact.
Suppose
$f\colon G\to\mathbb R^m$,
$G\subset\mathbb R^n$,
$n\le m$,
$f_1,\dots,f_m$ are the coordinate functions of
$f$. If
$1\le i_1<i_2<\dots<i_n\le m$,
$\alpha=\{i_1,\dots,i_n\}$, then
$f_\alpha$ is the mapping with the coordinate functions
$f_{i_1},\dots,f_{i_n}$:
$$
f_\alpha\colon
\begin{cases}
x_{i_1}=f_{i_1}(t_1,\dots,t_n)\\
\dots\dots\dots\dots\dots\dots\\
x_{i_n}=f_{i_n}(t_1,\dots,t_n)
\end{cases}
\quad(t_1,\dots,t_n)\in G.
$$
The main result states that if
$f$ is a continuous injective mapping,
$f\colon G\to\mathbb R^m$,
$n\le m$,
$G$ is an open subset of
$\mathbb R^n$,
$A\subset G$,
$A=\bigcup_{i\in I}K_i$,
$I$ is countable, all
$K_i$ are compact, then
$$
V_{f_\alpha}(A)\le H_n(f(A)),
$$
where
$V_{f_\alpha}(A)$ is the variation of
$f_\alpha$ on
$A$,
$H_n$ is
$n$-dimensional Hausdorff measure in
$\mathbb R^m$.
Key words and phrases:
variation of continuous mapping, Jordan's theorem, Hausdorff measure.
UDC:
517.518.114 Received: 04.06.2018