A characterization of the Ejiri torus in S^5

DOI10.1007/S10114-016-5491-6MaRDI QIDQ335100zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Peng Wang

Publication date 2 November 2016

Published in Acta Mathematica Sinica, English Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.06779

zbMATH Keywords

constrained Willmore surfacesEjiri's Willmore toruselastic curvestensor product of curvesWillmore functional

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: Ejiri's torus in $S^5$ is the first example of Willmore surface which is not conformally equivalent to any minimal surface in any space forms. Li and Vrancken classified all Willmore surfaces of tensor product in $S^n$ by reducing them into elastic curves in $S^3$, and the Ejiri torus appeared as a special example. In this paper, we first prove that among all Willmore tori of tensor product, the Willmore functional of the Ejiri torus in $S^5$ attains the minimum $2p{i}^{2}sqrt3$. Then we show that all Willmore tori of tensor product are unstable when the co-dimension is big enough. We also show that the Ejiri torus is unstable in $S^5$. Moreover, similar to Li and Vrancken, we classify all constrained Willmore surfaces of tensor product by reducing them with elastic curves in $S^3$. All constrained Willmore tori obtained this way are also shown to be unstable when the co-dimension is big enough. We conjecture that a Willmore torus having Willmore functional between $2p{i}^2$ and $2p{i}^{2}sqrt3$ is either the Clifford torus, or the Ejiri torus.

Review text

The author studies Willmore surfaces and constrained Willmore surfaces in the sphere. The considered class of surfaces consists of those that can be obtained as a tensor product surface of two planar curves. The easiest such example is the well-known Ejiri torus. The author shows that among all Willmore surfaces which are obtained as a tensor product, the Ejiri torus minimizes the Willmore functional. He also shows that all Willmore surfaces which are obtained as a tensor product are unstable if the codimension is sufficiently great. In the final section of the paper, the author then considers similar problems for the class of constrained Willmore surfaces obtained as tensor products of curves.

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