A frame energy for immersed tori and applications to regular homotopy classes

DOI10.4310/JDG/1473186541zbMATH Open1356.53008OpenAlexW2962724995WikidataQ115166578 ScholiaQ115166578MaRDI QIDQ333249FDOQ333249

Authors Andrea Mondino, Tristan Rivière 

Publication date 28 October 2016

Published in Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.6884

zbMATH Keywords

Dirichlet energyimmersionframe energymoving frameWillmore conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational methods for elliptic systems (35J50) Variational methods for higher-order elliptic equations (35J35) Higher-order elliptic systems (35J48) PDEs on manifolds (35R01) Optimization of shapes other than minimal surfaces (49Q10) Higher-dimensional and -codimensional surfaces in Euclidean and related (n)-spaces (53A07) Variational principles in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E30) Variational problems concerning extremal problems in several variables; Yang-Mills functionals (58E15)

Abstract: The paper is devoted to study the Dirichelet energy of moving frames on 2-dimensional tori immersed in the euclidean $3leqm$-dimensional space. This functional, called Frame energy, is naturally linked to the Willmore energy of the immersion and on the conformal structure of the abstract underlying surface. As first result, a Willmore-conjecture type lower bound is established : namely for every torus immersed in $R^m$, $mgeq3$, and any moving frame on it, the frame energy is at least $2p{i}^2$ and equalty holds if and only if $mgeq4$, the immersion is the standard Clifford torus (up to rotations and dilations), and the frame is the flat one. Smootheness of the critical points of the frame energy is proved after the discovery of hidden conservation laws and, as application, the minimization of the Frame energy in regular homotopy classes of immersed tori in $R^3$ is performed.

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