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In this paper we consider the compactness of \(\beta \)-symplectic critical surfaces in a Kähler surface. Let M be a compact Kähler surface and \(\Sigma _i\subset M\) be a sequence of closed \(\beta _i\)-symplectic critical surfaces with \(\beta _i\rightarrow \beta _0\in (0,\infty )\). Suppose the quantity \(\int _{\Sigma _i}\frac{1}{\cos ^q\alpha _i}d\mu _i\) (for some \(q>4\)) and the genus of \(\Sigma _{i}\) are bounded, then there exists a finite set of points \({{\mathcal {S}}}\subset M\) and a subsequence \(\Sigma _{i'}\) which converges uniformly in the \(C^l\) topology (for any \(l<\infty \)) on compact subsets of \(M\backslash {{\mathcal {S}}}\) to a \(\beta _0\)-symplectic critical surface \(\Sigma \subset M\), each connected component of \(\Sigma \setminus {{\mathcal {S}}}\) can be extended smoothly across \({{\mathcal {S}}}\).
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Communicated by A. Malchiodi.
The research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Nos. 11426236, 11131007, 11471014, 11401440.
Appendix: Monotonicity formula
Appendix: Monotonicity formula
In this appendix, we will prove the following monotonicity formula for submanifolds in a Riemannian manifold, which has been used in the proof of the main theorem. It is known to experts. For the convenience of the readers, we provide all the details here.
Theorem 4.2
Let \((M^n,\bar{g})\) be a Riemannian manifold with sectional curvature bounded by \(K_0\) (i.e., \(|K_M|\le K_0\)) and injectivity radius bounded below by \(i_0>0\). Suppose that \(\Sigma ^k\subset M^n\) is a smooth submanifold and \(x_0\in M\), if f is a nonnegative function on \(\Sigma \), then for any \(0<s_1<s_2< \min \{i_0,\frac{1}{\sqrt{K_0}}\}\),
In particular, by taking \(f\equiv 1\), we have:
The proof of the monotonicity formula needs the following estimate, which is a consequence of the standard hessian comparison theorem (see Lemma 5.1 of [6]).
Lemma 4.3
Let \((M^n,\bar{g})\) be a complete n-dimensional Riemannian manifold with sectional curvature bounded by \(K_0\) (i.e., \(|K_M|\le K_0\)) and injectivity radius bounded below by \(i_0>0\). Then for \(r<\min \{i_0,\frac{1}{\sqrt{K_0}}\}\) and any vector X with \(|X|=1\),
where r is the distance function from a fixed point on M.
Proof
Since \(-K_0\le K_M\le K_0\), by Hessian Comparison Theorem, we have for any \(|X|=1\), \(X_1\in T\bar{M}(K_0)\), \(X_2\in T\bar{M}(-K_0)\) with
we have
Here, \(\bar{M}(K_0)\), \(\bar{M}(K_0)\) denote the space form of constant curvatures \(K_0\), \(-K_0\), \(r_1\) and \(r_2\) are the distance functions on \(\bar{M}(K_0)\) and \(\bar{M}(-K_0)\), and \(Hess^1\) and \(Hess^2\) are the Hessians of \(\bar{M}(K_0)\) and \(\bar{M}(-K_0)\), respectively.
Recall that, if we set
then the hessian of the distance function r on the space form \(\bar{M}(K_0)\) is given by
Therefore, we have
Similarly, we have
Then, by (4.15), we can easily see that
Note that
An elementary computation shows that
Then the conclusion follows easily. \(\square \)
Proof of Theorem 4.2
In the proof, we will denote r the extrinsic distance from a fixed point \(x_0\) on M, Dr the gradient of r with respect to the Rimammian metric \(\bar{g}\). Then \(Dr=\nabla r+\nabla ^{\perp }r\), where \(\nabla r\) and \(\nabla ^{\perp } r\) denote the projections of Dr on the tangent bundle \(T\Sigma \) and normal bundle \(N\Sigma \), respectively. Also, we denote D and \(\nabla \) the Levi-Civita connection on \((M,\bar{g})\) and the induced connection on \((\Sigma ,g)\), respectively, where g denotes the induced metric on \(\Sigma \) from \((M,\bar{g})\).
We choose local orthonormal frame \(\{e_1,\ldots ,e_k,N_1,\ldots ,N_{n-k}\}\) so that: \(\{e_1,\ldots ,e_k\}\) spans \(T\Sigma \) and \(\{N_1,\ldots ,N_{n-k}\}\) spans \(N\Sigma \). Then for any \(C^2\) function f on \(\Sigma \), we have
where \(\mathbf{A }\) denotes the second fundamental form of \(\Sigma \) in M, \(\mathbf H \) is the mean curvature vector of \(\Sigma \) in M, and Hess is the Hessian of \((M,\bar{g})\). Therefore, we have
Applying Lemma 4.3, we have
Denote \(B_s(x_0)\) the geodesic ball of radius s centered at \(x_0\) on M. For \(x_0\in M\),we see that the unit outer normal vector of \(\partial B_s(x_0)\) is given by Dr and the unit outer normal \(\partial B_s(x_0)\cap \Sigma \) is given by \(\frac{\nabla r}{|\nabla r|}\).
The coarea formula gives us that
which implies that
On the other hand, by divergence theorem, we have
Combining with (4.16) and (4.18), we get that
which implies that
Integration from \(s_1\) to \(s_2\) gives (4.13). \(\square \)
The following corollary is a generalization of (1.3) in [15].
Corollary 4.4
Let \((M^n,\bar{g})\) be a closed Riemannian manifold with sectional curvature bounded by \(K_0\) (i.e., \(|K_M|\le K_0\)) and injectivity radius bounded below by \(i_0>0\). Suppose that \(\Sigma ^2\subset M^n\) is a smooth surface and \(x_0\in M\), then for any \(0<s_1<s_2< \min \{i_0,\frac{1}{\sqrt{K_0}}\}\)
Proof
First note that (4.14) (with \(k=2\)) can be written as
We need to estimate the last term. By coarea formula and Fubini Theorem, we compute
Since \(\mathbf H (r^2)=2r\langle \mathbf H ,\nabla ^{\perp }r\rangle \), we have
Putting this inequality into (4.20) yields the desired estimate. \(\square \)
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Han, X., Li, J. & Sun, J. The deformation of symplectic critical surfaces in a Kähler surface-II—compactness. Calc. Var. 56, 84 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00526-017-1175-z
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