Existence of Willmore surfaces that are not minimal (Q1432066)

The paper contains a construction of an infinite series of embedded tori in \(\mathbb{S}^3\) which are critical points of the Willmore functional, i.e. the functional which to any surface \(S\) in \(\mathbb{S}^3\) assigns the integral over \(S\) of the function \(1+ H^2\), \(H\) being the mean curvature of \(S\), but that do not stem from minimal surfaces. The author has observed some relatively simple relations between the curvature of the circles and the curvature of its inverse image by the Hopf mapping (\(\mathbb{S}^3\) is treated as a subset of the space of all quaternions) instead of using a theorem of Langer and Singer.