A sharp characterization of the Willmore invariant

DOI10.1142/S0129167X23500544MaRDI QIDQ6095458zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 8 September 2023

Published in International Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.14378

zbMATH Keywords

extrinsic conformal geometryhypersurface embeddingsWillmore invariant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential invariants (local theory), geometric objects (53A55) Conformal structures on manifolds (53C18) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Boundary value problems on manifolds (58J32)

Abstract: First introduced to describe surfaces embedded in $mathbb{R}^3$, the Willmore invariant is a conformally-invariant extrinsic scalar curvature of a surface that vanishes when the surface minimizes bending and stretching. Both this invariant and its higher dimensional analogs appear frequently in the study of conformal geometric systems. To that end, we provide a characterization of the Willmore invariant in general dimensions. In particular, we provide a sharp sufficient condition for the vanishing of the Willmore invariant and show that in even dimensions it can be described fully using conformal fundamental forms and one additional tensor.

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