Calculus of Variations and Geometric Measure Theory

A. Guerra - X. Lamy - K. Zemas

Sharp quantitative stability of the Möbius group among sphere-valued maps in arbitrary dimension

created by zemas on 01 Jun 2023
modified on 08 Apr 2025

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Inserted: 1 jun 2023
Last Updated: 8 apr 2025

Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc.
Volume: 378
Pages: 1235-1259
Year: 2025
Doi: https://doi.org/10.1090/tran/9272

ArXiv: 2305.19886 PDF
Links: arXiv: 2305.19886 pdf

Abstract:

In this work we prove a sharp quantitative form of Liouville's theorem, which asserts that, for all $n\geq 3$, the weakly conformal maps of $\mathbb {S}^{n-1}$ with degree $\pm 1$ are M\"obius transformations. In the case $n=3$ this estimate was first obtained by Bernand-Mantel, Muratov and Simon (Arch.\ Ration.\ Mech.\ Anal.\ 239(1):219-299, 2021), with different proofs given later on by Topping, and by Hirsch and the third author. The higher-dimensional case $n\geq 4$ requires new arguments because it is genuinely nonlinear: the linearized version of the estimate involves quantities which cannot control the sharp distance to M\"obius transformations in the conformally invariant Sobolev norm. Our main tool to circumvent this difficulty is an inequality introduced by Figalli and Zhang in their proof of a sharp stability estimate for the Sobolev inequality.