Accepted Paper

Inserted: 15 jun 2005
Last Updated: 18 dec 2006

Journal: Advances in Mathematics
Year: 2004

Abstract:

We describe intrinsically regular submanifolds in Heisenberg groups $H^n$. Low dimensional and low codimensional submanifolds turn out to be of a very different nature. The first ones are Legendrian surfaces, while low codimensional ones are more general objects, possibly non Euclidean rectifiable. Nevertheless we prove that they are graphs in a natural group way, as well as that an area formula holds for the intrinsic Haudorff measure. Finally, they can be seen as Federer-Fleming currents given a natural complex of differential forms on $H^n$.

Keywords: area formula, Heisenberg groups, regular submanifolds, Federer-Fleming currents

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