Asymptotics of Willmore minimizers with prescribed small isoperimetric ratio

DOI10.1137/17M1125996zbMATH Open1396.53006arXiv1704.04935WikidataQ129377577 ScholiaQ129377577MaRDI QIDQ4580415FDOQ4580415

Yuxiang Li, Ernst Kuwert

Publication date: 15 August 2018

Published in: SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider surfaces in ${mathbbR}^3$ of type ${mathbbS}^2$ which minimize the Willmore functional with prescribed isoperimetric ratio. The existence of smooth minimizers was proved by Schygulla (Archive Rational Mechanics and Analysis, 2012). In the singular limit when the isoperimetric ratio converges to zero, he showed convergence to a double round sphere in the sense of varifolds. Here we give a full blowup analysis of this limit, showing that the two spheres are connected by a catenoidal neck. Besides its geometric interest, the problem was studied as a simplified model in the theory of cell membranes, see e.g. Berndl, Lipowsky, Seifert (Physical Review A, 1991).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.04935

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zbMATH Keywords

singular limitWillmore functionalisoperimetric constraint

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs (35B40) Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05)

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