Global existence and full convergence of the Möbius-invariant Willmore flow in the 3-sphere

DOI10.1007/S12220-023-01464-XMaRDI QIDQ6143864zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ruben Jakob

Publication date 5 January 2024

Published in The Journal of Geometric Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.00471

zbMATH Keywords

center manifoldsClifford torusconformal invarianceWillmore flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Initial value problems for higher-order parabolic systems (35K46) PDEs on manifolds (35R01) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) Flows related to mean curvature (53E10) Heat and other parabolic equation methods for PDEs on manifolds (58J35)

Abstract: In this article, we prove two "global existence and full convergence theorems" for flow lines of the M"obius-invariant Willmore flow, and we use these results, in order to prove that fully and smoothly convergent flow lines of the M"obius-invariant Willmore flow are stable w.r.t. small perturbations of their initial immersions in any $C^{4,gamma}$-norm, provided they converge either to a smooth parametrization of "a Clifford-torus" in $mathbb{S}^3$ or to a umbilic-free $C^4$-local minimizer of the Willmore functional in either $mathbb{R}^3$ or $mathbb{S}^3$. The proofs of our four main theorems rely on the author's recent achievements about the M"obius-invariant Willmore flow, on Escher's, Mayer's and Simonett's work from "the 90s" on "invariant center manifolds" for uniformly parabolic quasilinear evolution equations and their special applications to the "Willmore flow" and "Surface diffusion flow" near round $2$-spheres in $mathbb{R}^3$ and on Riviere's and Bernard's fundamental investigation of the Willmore functional on the basis of its conformal invariance and Noether's Theorem.

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