Conformal Gauss map geometry and application to Willmore surfaces in model spaces

DOI10.1007/S11118-020-09825-9MaRDI QIDQ2223713zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nicolas Marque

Publication date 1 February 2021

Published in Potential Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.07475

zbMATH Keywords

Bryant's functionalconformal Gauss mapconformal Willmore immersionsconformally CMC surfacesWillmore immersions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Differential geometry of submanifolds of Möbius space (53A31) Differential geometric aspects of harmonic maps (53C43) Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20)

Abstract: In this paper we make a detailed and self-contained study of the conformalGauss map. Then, starting from the seminal work of R. Bryant and the notion of conformal Gauss map, we recover many fundamental properties of Willmore surfaces. We also get new results like some characterizations of minimal and constant meancurvature (CMC) surfaces in term of their conformal Gauss map behavior.

Review text

The author gives a detailed and self-contained study of the conformal Gauss map, with the aim of understanding the Moebius geometry of surfaces and with applications to Willmore surfaces. A Willmore surface is a smooth closed surface embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space which is a local minimum for a functional called the Willmore energy. The Willmore energy is a measure of the deviation of this surface from being a round sphere and it is defined as the integral of the square of the mean curvature minus the Gaussian curvature. Using the notion of conformal Gauss map and based on work of Bryant on Willmore surfaces [\textit{R. L. Bryant}, J. Differ. Geom. 20, 23--53 (1984; Zbl 0555.53002)], the authors recovers several fundamental properties of these surfaces, including a new geometric description of these surfaces by characterizing them as conformally constant mean curvature immersions.

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