Convexity of weakly regular surfaces of distributional nonnegative intrinsic curvature

Abstract

We prove that the image of an isometric embedding into ${\mathbb R}^3$ of a two dimensionnal complete Riemannian manifold $(\Sigma, g)$ without boundary is a convex surface provided both the embedding and the metric $g$ enjoy a $C^{1,\alpha}$ regularity for some $\alpha>2/3$ and the distributional Gaussian curvature of $g$ is nonnegative and nonzero. The analysis must pass through some key observations regarding solutions to the very weak Monge-Amp\`ere equation.