Harmonic map methods for Willmore surfaces

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Authors Katrin Leschke

Publication date 6 July 2011

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1003.3371

zbMATH Keywords

harmonic map theoremsurfaces of constant mean curvatureWillmore surfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42)

Abstract: In this note we demonstrate how the analogy between the harmonic Gauss map of a constant mean curvature surface and the harmonic conformal Gauss map of a Willmore surface can be used to obtain results on Willmore surfaces.

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