On Otsuki tori and their Willmore energy
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: On Otsuki tori and their Willmore energy
zbMATH Open document ID: 1250.53010
author: Haifen Song
author: Zejun Hu
published in: Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications
publication date: 2012-08-30T00:00:00Z
reviewed by: Hans-Peter Schröcker
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53A30
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53A10
zbMATH DE Number: 6074396
zbMATH Keywords: Otsuki torus
zbMATH Keywords: Willmore energy
zbMATH Keywords: antipodal map
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
full work available at URL: j.jmaa.2012.05.042
OpenAlex ID: W2012215732
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DOI: 10.1016/J.JMAA.2012.05.042
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review text: An Otsuki torus [\textit{T. Otsuki}, Am. J. Math. 92, 145--173 (1970; Zbl 0196.25102)] is a compact, minimal and embedded hypersurface in \(\mathbb{S}^3 \subset \mathbb{R}^4\) that can be parametrized by NEWLINE\[NEWLINE \begin{aligned} x &= \sqrt{1-h^2-(h')^2} \cos\alpha, \\ y &= \sqrt{1-h^2-(h')^2} \sin\alpha, \\ u &= h(\theta)\sin\theta + h'(\theta)\cos\theta, \\ v &= h'(\theta)\sin\theta - h(\theta)\cos\theta \end{aligned} NEWLINE\]NEWLINE where \(h(\theta)\) is a (necessarily periodic) solution to a certain differential equation with a rationality constraint on its minimal period. Alternative definitions are conceivable as well. Otsuki tori (with the single exception of the Clifford torus) are in a natural one-to-one correspondence with rational numbers in the interval \((1/2, \sqrt{2}/2)\). If \(p/q\) is a reduced rational number in this interval, the corresponding Otsuki torus is denoted by \(O_{p/q}\).NEWLINENEWLINEThe authors' main result is the estimate \(4 \pi q < W(O_{p/q}) < \sqrt{2} \pi^2 q\) for the Willmore energy \(W(O_{p/q})\) of Otsuki tori. If the torus is invariant under the antipodal map, the lower bound can be improved to \(W(O_{p/q}) > 32\pi\). These results show that the Willmore conjecture holds for Otsuki tori.
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