On density of state of quantized Willmore surface - a way to a quantized extrinsic string in (Q4254292)

The goal of this paper is to quantize Willmore surfaces. Previous articles of the author did a similar quantization for ``elastica'', i.e., immersed curves into \(\mathbb{R}^n\) with prescribed length. These techniques are now used for the quantization of Willmore surfaces. The approach of the author uses the well-known fact that any immersion of an oriented hypersurface into \(\mathbb{R}^n\) induces spinors on the immersed manifold for a suitable spin structure. These spinors obey a Dirac type equation, called Konopelchenko-Kenmotsu-Weierstrass-Enneper equation in this article. Using path integral methods, a partition function is defined and regularized. Throughout the paper, many relations to the Lax operator, the modified Korteweg-de Vries equation and the modified Novikov-Veselov equation are mentioned.