Bubble tree of branched conformal immersions and applications to the Willmore functional

DOI10.1353/AJM.2014.0023zbMATH Open1298.53007arXiv1112.1818OpenAlexW2027191241MaRDI QIDQ2879443FDOQ2879443

Authors: Jingyi Chen, Yuxiang Li 

Publication date: 1 September 2014

Published in: American Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We develop a bubble tree construction and prove compactness results for $W^{2,2}$ branched conformal immersions of closed Riemann surfaces, with varying conformal structures whose limit may degenerate, in a compact Riemannian manifold with uniformly bounded areas and Willmore energies. The compactness property is applied to construct Willmore type surfaces in compact Riemannian manifolds. This includes (a) existence of a Willmore 2-sphere in ${mathbbS}^n$ with at least 2 nonremovable singular points (b) existence of minimizers of the Willmore functional with prescribed area in a compact manifold $N$ provided (i) the area is small when genus is 0 and (ii) the area is close to that of the area minimizing surface of Schoen-Yau and Sacks-Uhlenbeck in the homotopy class of an incompressible map from a surface of positive genus to $N$ and $p{i}_2(N)$ is trivial (c) existence of smooth minimizers of the Willmore functional if a Douglas type condition is satisfied.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.1818

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zbMATH Keywords

Willmore energies2 nonremovable singular pointsDouglas type condition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Optimization of shapes other than minimal surfaces (49Q10) Higher-dimensional and -codimensional surfaces in Euclidean and related (n)-spaces (53A07)

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