Contact stationary Legendrian surfaces in \(\mathbb S^5\) (Q1679929)

The author proves the equation \(-\Delta^\nu H+(K-1)H=0\) satisfied by contact stationary Legendrian surfaces \(L\) in a Sasakian Einstein manifold \((M^5,\alpha,g_\alpha,J)\) with contact 1-form \(\alpha\), associated metric \(g_\alpha\) and almost complex structure \(J\). Here \(\Delta^\nu\) is the normal Laplacian with respect to the metric \(g\) on \(L\) induced from \(g_\alpha\), and \(K\) is the Gaussian curvature of \((L,g)\). Using this equation and a new Simons-type inequality, the author proves an integral inequality and studies pinching properties of such surfaces in the unit sphere \(S^5\). In particular, if the second fundamental form \(B\) of \(L\) obeys \(S=| B|^2\) with \(\rho^2=S-2H^2\) and \(0=S=2\), then either \(\rho^2=0\) and \(L\) is totally umbilical or \(\rho^2\neq 0\), \(S=2\), \(H=0\) and \(L\) is a flat minimal Legendrian torus.