Sufficient conditions for Willmore immersions in R^3 to be minimal surfaces

DOI10.1007/S10455-013-9391-ZMaRDI QIDQ2454092zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Matthias Bergner, Ruben Jakob

Publication date 12 June 2014

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10455-013-9391-z

zbMATH Keywords

minimal surfaceWillmore graphWillmore surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10)

Review text

This is an original research article, which proves two significant results in the theory of Willmore surfaces. Namely, the authors give two sharp, sufficient conditions for Willmore surfaces in Euclidean 3-space to be minimal surfaces. The main result is: Willmore graphs on bounded \(C^4\) domains with vanishing mean curvature on the boundary must be minimal graphs. The article is written in a user-friendly manner, and the proofs are explained in full detail. It is suitable for graduate students and junior researchers who are familiar with minimal and Willmore surfaces. The results contained in this article are relevant and significant to all researchers in the field.

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