New developments on the p-Willmore energy of surfaces

DOI10.7546/GIQ-21-2020-57-65MaRDI QIDQ1980255zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Eugenio Aulisa, Anthony Gruber, Magdalena Daniela Toda, Hung Tran

Publication date 3 September 2021

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.7546/giq-21-2020-57-65

zbMATH Keywords

curvature functionalsminimal surfacesWillmore energyWillmore flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Optimization of shapes other than minimal surfaces (49Q10) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) Geometric evolution equations (53E99)

Review text

The Willmore energy is an important conformal invariant of immersed surfaces \(\Sigma\) in the Euclidean 3-space. The article surveys some recent results [the second author et al., Ann. Global Anal. Geom. 56, No. 1, 147--165 (2019; Zbl 1417.58009)] on the \(p\)-Willmore energy \(W^p(\Sigma) = \int_\Sigma H^p dS\) (i.e., different powers of the mean curvature \(H\) of \(\Sigma\) in the integrand) for nonnegative integer \(p\) of surfaces (with boundary) in 3-dimensional space forms. Section 2 gives the first and second variations of \(W^p\), and presented a flux formula, which reveals (in Section 3) a connection between its critical points and the minimal surfaces. Section 4 reformulates the \(p\)-Willmore flow problem and presents (and visualizes through computer implementation) a model for the \(p\)-Willmore flow of graphs. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1445.53003].

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