Construction of Willmore two-spheres via harmonic maps into SO^+ (1, n + 3) / (SO^+ (1, 1) SO(n + 2))

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Authors Peng Wang

Publication date 23 February 2018

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.02674

zbMATH Keywords

harmonic mapsymmetric spaceWillmore surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometry of symmetric spaces (53C35) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) Differential geometric aspects of harmonic maps (53C43)

Abstract: This paper aims to provide a description of totally isotropic Willmore two-spheres and their adjoint transforms. We first recall the isotropic harmonic maps which are introduced by H'elein, Xia-Shen and Ma for the study of Willmore surfaces. Then we derive a description of the normalized potential (some Lie algebra valued meromorphic 1-forms) of totally isotropic Willmore two-spheres in terms of the isotropic harmonic maps. In particular, the corresponding isotropic harmonic maps are of finite uniton type. The proof also contains a concrete way to construct examples of totally isotropic Willmore two-spheres and their adjoint transforms. As illustrations, two kinds of examples are obtained this way.

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