Minimizers of Convex Functionals Arising in Random Surfaces
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We investigate C1 regularity of minimizers to ́ F (∇u)dx in two dimensions for certain classes of non-smooth convex functionals F . In particular our results apply to the surface tensions that appear in recent works on random surfaces and random tilings of Kenyon, Okounkov and others.
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