An inequality between Willmore functional and Weyl functional for submanifolds in space forms (Q1042463): Difference between revisions

The authors use tensor calculus to prove the following inequality between the Willmore and the Weyl functional of an \(n\)-dimensional (\(n\geq4\)) submanifold \(M\) in an \((n+p)\)-dimensional space form: \(W(M)\geq(2{n-2\over n-1})^{-n/4}\nu(g)\), with equality for totally umbilic submanifolds and ``higher dimensional Clifford tori'' \(S^m(a)\times S^m(\sqrt{1-a^2})\subset S^{2m+1}(1)\), \(0<a<1\). Here, the Weyl functional is defined by \(\nu(g)=\int_M\|W_g\|^{n/2}dv_g\), where \(g\) denotes the induced metric on \(M\) and \(W_g\) its \((4,0)\) Weyl curvature tensor.