Constrained Willmore Surfaces

DOI10.1017/9781108885478zbMATH Open1503.53002arXiv0912.5402OpenAlexW1484918381MaRDI QIDQ5145142FDOQ5145142

Áurea C. Quintino

Publication date: 20 January 2021

Abstract: This work is dedicated to the study of the Moebius invariant class of constrained Willmore surfaces and its symmetries. We define a spectral deformation by the action of a loop of flat metric connections; Baecklund transformations, by applying a dressing action; and, in 4-space, Darboux transformations, based on the solution of a Riccati equation. We establish a permutability between spectral deformation and Baecklund transformation and prove that non-trivial Darboux transformation of constrained Willmore surfaces in 4-space can be obtained as a particular case of Baecklund transformation. All these transformations corresponding to the zero multiplier preserve the class of Willmore surfaces. We verify that, for special choices of parameters, both spectral deformation and Baecklund transformation preserve the class of constrained Willmore surfaces admitting a conserved quantity, and, in particular, the class of CMC surfaces in 3-dimensional space-form.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.5402

zbMATH Keywords

Darboux transformationsWillmore surfacestransformation theoryBäcklund transformations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to dynamical systems and ergodic theory (37-02) Completely integrable infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, integration methods, integrability tests, integrable hierarchies (KdV, KP, Toda, etc.) (37K10) Lie-Bäcklund and other transformations for infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37K35) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to differential geometry (53-02) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) Relations of infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian dynamical systems with topology, geometry and differential geometry (37K25) Differential geometry of submanifolds of Möbius space (53A31)

Cited In (3)

• Simple factor dressing and the López-Ros deformation of minimal surfaces in Euclidean 3-space
• Minimal surfaces under constrained Willmore transformation
• Conformal surface splines

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