Example for an integral, rectifiable varifold with unbounded first variation

I'm just looking for an example of an integral, rectifiable varifold, which has no locally bounded first variation.

Recapitulation

for every $m$-rectifiable varifold $\mu$ exists a $m$-rectifiable set $E$ in $\mathbb R^n$, meaning $E=E_0 \cup \bigcup_{k\in\mathbb N} E_k$ with $\mathcal H^m(E_0)=0$ and $E_k\subseteq F_k$ for some $\mathcal C^1$-manifolds $F_k$ of dimension $m$, and a non-negativ function $\theta\in L^1_{\text{loc}}(\mathcal H^m|_E)$ such that $\mu=\theta \mathcal H^m|_E$. This is a characterisation of $m$-recitifiable varifolds. The first variation $\delta\mu$ of a varifold $\mu$ is for $\eta\in\mathcal C^1_c(\mathbb R^n;\mathbb R^n)$ given by $$\delta\mu(\eta)=\int div_\mu\eta\,d\mu,$$ where $div_\mu(\eta)(x) = \sum_{i=1}^n \tau_i^T(x)\cdot D\eta(x)\cdot \tau_i(x)$ where $\tau_i(x)$ is a orthogonal basis of the tangentspace of $\mu$ in $x$, which coinsidence $\mu$-almost everywhere with $T_xF_i$ for $x\in E_i\subseteq F_i$ as above. So $div_\mu\eta(x)$ is just the divergence in the manifold $F_i$, with $x\in E_i\subseteq F_i$.

We say $\mu$ has an locally bounded first variation, if for all $\Omega'\subseteq \Omega$ there exists $c(\Omega')<\infty$ such that $$\delta\mu(\eta) \le C(\Omega',\Omega) \Vert \eta\Vert_{L^\infty(\Omega)} \qquad\forall\;\eta\in\mathcal C^1_c(\Omega').$$ See for more explanation for example http://eom.springer.de/G/g130040.htm.

For a $\mathcal C^2$-manifold $M$ in $\mathbb R^n$ with mean curvature $H_M$ the first variation is $$\delta M(\eta)=-\int_M H_M \cdot \eta \,dvol_M -\int_{\partial M} \tau_0 \cdot \eta \,dvol_{\partial M} \qquad\forall\;\eta\in\mathcal C_c^1(\mathbb R^n)$$ with the inner normal $\tau_0\in T_xM\cap(T_x\partial M)^\bot$ and where the mean curvature is the trace of the second fundamental form $A$ by the meaning of $H_M(x)=\sum_{i=1}^m A_x(\tau_i,\tau_i)$ in the normal space of $M$. As obviouse in this case the first variation is locally bounded.

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It would be better if you could recall definitions of varifold and its first variation. –  Anton Petrunin Jan 27 '10 at 0:43
Can you clarify what $D(\eta\tau_i)(x)$ stands for here? Also, it would be great if you could tell what it all means for regular smooth manifolds (if I understand it right, we just want to show that certain quantitative estimate fails, i.e., we may have small area and big "first variation" (whatever that means)). –  fedja Jan 28 '10 at 16:10
That were just missplaced bracets. Sorry, corrected it. –  Elgrimm Jan 28 '10 at 18:01
I don't know much about geometric measure theory, so I hope this question isn't too naive -- but what happens if you take $m=1$ or $m=2$ (curves and surfaces)? Is there obviously no example of the type you seek, or are even those cases still open? –  Yemon Choi Jan 28 '10 at 19:38
even that case is open. But in fact the question here is just the first step of searching an counter-example for something else. And in that case curves can't work. But even a curves or a surface would help understanding what goes wrong in the case of an unbounded first variation... –  Elgrimm Jan 29 '10 at 8:14
Something is strange here: it seems like for the sawtooth curve (the Lipschitz curve that goes up and down with slope $1$), the first variation is just the sum of $\delta$-measures at the turning points times the unit bisector vectors, so we can have fixed length and arbitrarily large first variation (just make turning points more and more dense), which can be now trivially turned into an example of finite area and infinite first variation: take more and more rigged closed sawtooth curves around infinitely many circles with finite some of radii contained in a compact domain. Am I missing something?