Energy Estimates for the Tracefree Curvature of Willmore Surfaces and Applications

DOI10.1007/S00205-022-01839-4MaRDI QIDQ6349587arXivFDO

Authors Yann Bernard, Paul Laurain, Nicolas Marque

Publication date 21 September 2020

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/S00205-022-01839-4

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational methods for higher-order elliptic equations (35J35) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Differential geometry of submanifolds of Möbius space (53A31) Conformal structures on manifolds (53C18)

arXiv classification

math.APmath.DG

Abstract: We prove an $epsilon$-regularity result for the tracefree curvature of a Willmore surface with bounded second fundamental form. For such a surface, we obtain a pointwise control of the tracefree second fundamental form from a small control of its $L^2$-norm.Several applications are investigated. Notably, we derive a gap statement for surfaces of the aforementioned type. We further apply our results to deduce regularity results for conformal minimal spacelike immersions into the de Sitter space $S^{4,1}$.

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