Willmore-like functionals for surfaces in 3-dimensional Thurston geometries

zbMATH Open1372.53059arXiv1410.8669MaRDI QIDQ522131FDOQ522131

Authors: D. A. Berdinskij, Yuri Vyatkin 

Publication date: 13 April 2017

Published in: Osaka Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We find analogues of the Willmore functional for each of the Thurston geometries with 4-dimensional isometry group such that the CMC-spheres in these geometries are critical points of these functionals.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.8669

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zbMATH Keywords

Willmore functionalThurston geometriesconstant mean curvature spheres

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) Critical points and critical submanifolds in differential topology (57R70)

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