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Removability of point singularities of Willmore surfaces
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    Removability of point singularities of Willmore surfaces (English)
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    4 April 2005
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    The Willmore functional is defined for immersions \(f\colon\Sigma \to \mathbb R^n\) of a closed surface \(\Sigma\) into Euclidean space. It is given by \[ W(f) = {1 \over 4} \int_\Sigma | H| ^2 \] where \(H\) denotes the mean curvature vector field. It is known that always \[ W(f) \geq 4\pi \] with equality only for round spheres. Moreover, if \(W(f) < 8\pi\), then \(f\) is an embedding. Critical points of the Willmore functional are called Willmore surfaces. The authors show that certain point singularities of Willmore surfaces can be removed: The surface extends \(C^{1,\alpha}\) for all \(\alpha < 1\) into the point singularity (but not \(C^{1,1}\) as examples show). From this they deduce that the set of all closed surfaces \(\Sigma \subset \mathbb R^3\) of genus \(1\) and \(W(\Sigma) \leq 8\pi - \delta\), \(\delta>0\) fixed, is compact up to Möbius transformations under smooth convergence of compactly contained surfaces in \(\mathbb R^3\). There are also applications to long time existence of the corresponding Willmore flow.
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    Willmore surface
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    Willmore flow
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    point singularity
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