Conformally invariant bending energy for hypersurfaces

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/38/37/002zbMATH Open1246.53080arXivcond-mat/0507320OpenAlexW2047118338MaRDI QIDQ5705339FDOQ5705339

Authors: Jemal Guven 

Publication date: 8 November 2005

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The most general conformally invariant bending energy of a closed four-dimensional surface, polynomial in the extrinsic curvature and its derivatives, is constructed. This invariance manifests itself as a set of constraints on the corresponding stress tensor. If the topology is fixed, there are three independent polynomial invariants: two of these are the straighforward quartic analogues of the quadratic Willmore energy for a two-dimensional surface; one is intrinsic (the Weyl invariant), the other extrinsic; the third invariant involves a sum of a quadratic in gradients of the extrinsic curvature -- which is not itself invariant -- and a quartic in the curvature. The four-dimensional energy quadratic in extrinsic curvature plays a central role in this construction.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0507320

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) Variational problems concerning extremal problems in several variables; Yang-Mills functionals (58E15)

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