Constrained Willmore tori in the 4-sphere (Q531754)

It is proved that a constrained Willmore immersion of a 2-torus into the conformal 4-sphere \(S^4\) is of ``finite type'', that is, has a spectral curve of finite genus, or of ``holomorphic type'' which means that it is super conformal or Euclidean minimal with planar ends in \(\mathbb{R}^4\cong S^4\setminus\{\infty\}\) for some point \(\infty\in S^4\) at infinity. This implies that all constrained Willmore tori in \(S^4\) can be constructed rather explicitly by methods of complex algebraic geometry. The proof uses quaternionic holomorphic geometry in combination with integrable systems methods similar to those of \textit{N. J. Hitchin's} approach [J. Differ. Geom. 31, No. 3, 627--710 (1990; Zbl 0725.58010)] to the study of harmonic tori in \(S^3\).