Willmore surfaces of constant Möbius curvature

DOI10.1007/S10455-007-9065-9zbMATH Open1143.53013arXivmath/0609057OpenAlexW3098045500MaRDI QIDQ2385173FDOQ2385173

Changping Wang, Xiang Ma

Publication date: 11 October 2007

Published in: Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study Willmore surfaces of constant Moebius curvature $K$ in $S^4$. It is proved that such a surface in $S^3$ must be part of a minimal surface in $R^3$ or the Clifford torus. Another result in this paper is that an isotropic surface (hence also Willmore) in $S^4$ of constant $K$ could only be part of a complex curve in $C^{2}cong{R}^4$ or the Veronese 2-sphere in $S^4$. It is conjectured that they are the only examples possible. The main ingredients of the proofs are over-determined systems and isoparametric functions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0609057

zbMATH Keywords

Willmore surfacesMinimal surfacesIsoparametric functionMöbius curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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