Vol. 183, No. 2, 1998

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Guy David & Stephen Semmes

Abstract

We study codimension 1 quasiminimizing surfaces in Rn, and establish uniform rectifiability and other geometric properties of these surfaces. For instance, their complementary components must be John domains. In fact we give a complete characterization of quasiminimizers. As an application we show that sets which are not too large and which separate points in a definite way must have a large uniformly rectifiable piece. In this way we use area quasiminimizers to solve a problem in geometric measure theory.

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Guy David
Université Paris XI et Institut Universitaire de France
Bâtiment 425
91405 Orsay
France
IHES
91440 Bures-sur-Yvette
France
Stephen Semmes
Rice University
P.O. Box 1892
Houston, TX 77251