Regular submanifolds, graphs and area formula in Heisenberg groups

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 Hausdorff measure. Finally, they can be seen as Federer–Fleming currents given a natural complex of differential forms on H n .