A new conformal invariant and its applications to the Willmore conjecture and the first eigenvalue of compact surfaces

DOI10.1007/BF01399507zbMath0503.53042OpenAlexW2126411107WikidataQ123020982 ScholiaQ123020982MaRDI QIDQ1173291

Publication date: 1982

Published in: Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/142954

zbMATH Keywords

mean curvature minimal submanifold Laplacian conformal immersion higher total curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42)

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