Analysis of constrained Willmore surfaces

DOI10.1080/03605302.2016.1222543zbMATH Open1356.35065arXiv1211.4455OpenAlexW1504918996MaRDI QIDQ2955367FDOQ2955367

Authors: Yann Bernard 

Publication date: 25 January 2017

Published in: Communications in Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper studies the regularity of constrained Willmore immersions into $R^{mge3}$ locally around both "regular" points and around branch points, where the immersive nature of the map degenerates. We develop local asymptotic expansions for the immersion, its first, and its second derivatives, given in terms of residues which are computed as circulation integrals. We deduce explicit "point removability" conditions ensuring that the immersion is smooth. Our results apply in particular to Willmore immersions and to parallel mean curvature immersions in any codimension.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.4455

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zbMATH Keywords

Willmore energysingular behaviourconformal Willmore equationsingularity removability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs (35B65) Variational methods applied to PDEs (35A15) Asymptotic expansions of solutions to PDEs (35C20) Variational methods for higher-order elliptic equations (35J35) Higher-order elliptic systems (35J48) Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) Quasilinear elliptic equations with mean curvature operator (35J93)

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