An inclusive immersion into a quaternionic manifold and its invariants (Q1679203)
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An inclusive immersion into a quaternionic manifold and its invariants (English)
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8 November 2017
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The author studies inclusive surfaces in quaternionic manifolds using a quaternionic invariant \(\mathcal W_Q\) corresponding to the Willmore functional. He shows that \(\mathcal W_Q\) is independent of the choice of a quaternionic connection. Moreover, he establishes a lower bound for the invariant \(\mathcal W_Q\) and shows that equality holds if and only if the inclusive immersion is twistor holomorphic. The author also considers quaternionic Willmore immersions, i.e., stationary inclusive immersions of the functional \(\mathcal W_Q\). He shows that compact inclusive minimal surfaces either in a quaternionic Kähler manifold of dimension greater than four or in an anti-self-dual Einstein 4-manifold are quaternionic Willmore.
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quaternionic manifolds
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Willmore functional
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twistor space
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minimal surfaces
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