We show that if E is an s-regular set in R^2 for which the triple integral \int_E \int_E \int_E c(x, y, z)^{2s} dH^sx dH^sy dH^sz of the Menger curvature c is finite and if 0 < s ≤ 1/2, then H^s almost all of E can be covered with countably many C^1 curves. We give an example to show that this is false for 1/2 <s< 1.

The mean curvature flow is the gradient flow of volume functionals on the space of submanifolds. We prove a fundamental regularity result of the mean curvature flow in this paper: a Lipschitz submanifold with small local Lipschitz norm becomes smooth instantly along the mean curvature flow. This generalizes the regularity theorem of Ecker and Huisken for Lipschitz hypersurfaces. In particular, any submanifold of the Euclidean space with a continuous induced metric can be smoothed out by the mean curvature flow. The smallness assumption is necessary in the higher codimension case in view of an example of Lawson and Osserman. The stationary phase of the mean curvature flow corresponds to minimal submanifolds. Our result thus generalizes Morrey’s classical theorem on the smoothness of $C_1$ minimal submanifolds.

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