Quantizes Willmore energy in Riemannian manifolds with bounded energy and area.
problem Quantization of Willmore energy in bounded energy and area conditions.
method Uniform boundedness of Willmore energy and area, weak convergence of maps, and conformal structures in compact domain.
result Quantization of Willmore energy holds under specified conditions.
The Willmore energy for Frenet curves in quaternionic projective space is the generalization of the Willmore functional for immersions into the 4-sphere. Critical points of the Willmore energy are called Willmore curves in quaternionic projective space. Using a Baecklund transformation on Willmore curves, we generalize…
Willmore flow preserves low energy surfaces to planes.
problem Preserving low energy surfaces to planes under Willmore flow.
method Willmore flow equation for complete, properly immersed surfaces in Rn.
result Complete Willmore surfaces with low energy converge to planes.
Reduces energy for 4D submanifolds in R^n.
problem Energy reduction for 4D submanifolds in R^n.
method Connected sum energy reduction for fourth-order Willmore energy.
result Established a connected sum energy reduction for the fourth-order Willmore energy.
Discrete geometry model approximates Willmore energy.
problem Approximating the Willmore energy for triangulated surfaces.
method A discrete energy defined in the spirit of discrete differential geometry converges to the Willmore energy.
result The discrete energy converges to the Willmore energy in the sense of Γ-convergence. Lower bounds on geodesic lengths for spheres with Willmore energy.
problem Finding shortest closed geodesics on spheres with Willmore energy.
method Proving a lower bound on geodesic lengths for spheres with Willmore energy below 6π.
result The energy threshold of 6π is optimal and the inequality cannot be extended to higher genus surfaces.
Study of Willmore energy on sphere sublevel sets and flow singularities.
problem Understanding the Willmore energy landscape and singularities of the Willmore flow.
method Gluing different instances of the Willmore flow and using an invariant for triple-point-free spheres.
result Classification of initial surfaces with energy at most 12π leading to unavoidable singularities.
Investigates a new four-dimensional energy related to Willmore energy.
problem Exploring a new conformally invariant energy in four dimensions.
method Computed first variation, applied Noether's theorem, investigated other generalizations.
result Critical points of the new energy are smooth and do not include minimal hypersurfaces.
Energy quantization for surfaces with area, volume, and mean curvature constraints.
problem Energy quantization for constrained Willmore surfaces.
method Established through strong compactness under energy thresholds.
result Strong compactness of constrained Willmore surfaces, including minimizers.
Study of tori of revolution under Willmore flow converges to Clifford Torus.
problem Long-time behavior and convergence of Willmore flow for tori of revolution.
method Gradient flow of Willmore energy for tori of revolution, analyzing energy threshold and convergence to Clifford Torus.
result Convergence of Willmore flow to Clifford Torus for initial energy below 8π.
A new parametric method studies Willmore flows and energy quantization.
problem Understanding Willmore flows and their singularities.
method Parametric approach to Willmore gradient flows.
result For small-energy weak immersions, a unique solution exists.
A neural flow method minimizes Willmore energy for 2-surfaces in 3D space.
problem Minimizing Willmore energy for closed oriented 2-surfaces in 3D space.
method Introducing neural Willmore flow to model and minimize the Willmore energy using neural architectures.
result The neural flow reproduces expected round sphere and Clifford torus for genus 0 and 1 surfaces, respectively, and finds minimal Willmore surfaces for genus 2.
The paper proves topological finiteness for surfaces with finite Willmore energy.
problem Understanding the topology of surfaces with finite Willmore energy.
method Combining Allard regularity theorem and Reifenberg's topological disk theorem.
result Topological finiteness for a class of properly immersed surfaces with finite Willmore energy.
We show that the homogeneous and the 2-lobe Delaunay tori in the 3-sphere provide the only isothermic constrained Willmore tori in 3-space with Willmore energy below 8π. In particular, every constrained Willmore torus with Willmore energy below 8π and non-rectangular conformal class is non-degenerated.
Smooth minimizers found for Willmore energy surfaces.
problem Finding minimizers for Willmore energy surfaces.
method Existence and smoothness established through axially symmetric surfaces with prescribed isoperimetric ratio.
result Existence and smoothness of minimizers proven.
New geometric interpretation of discrete Willmore energy using rolling spheres connection.
problem Discrete formulation of Willmore energy for simplicial surfaces.
method Geometric interpretation of Möbius invariant discrete Willmore energy using rolling spheres connection.
result Clear geometric interpretations of discrete Willmore energy with manifest Möbius invariance.
We study various aspects related to boundary regularity of complete properly embedded Willmore surfaces in H3, particularly those related to assumptions on boundedness or smallness of a certain weighted version of the Willmore energy. We prove, in particular, that small energy controls C1 boundary regularity. We examin…
A theorem connects two Willmore energies in 4D.
problem Understanding the Willmore energy in 4D.
method Proving a duality theorem for a specific Willmore energy.
result The Willmore energy is equal to two conformally invariant energies.
Study on smoothness of 4D Willmore-type hypersurfaces.
problem Investigating smoothness of critical points of a 4D Willmore-type energy.
method Computed first variation, applied Noether's theorem, investigated other generalizations.
result Critical points of the energy are smooth.
Defines a new energy for submanifolds, comparing to Willmore energy.
problem Finding new conformally invariant energies for submanifolds.
method Coupling tractor connection to GJMS operators for higher-dimensional analogues.
result Shows comparison with existing energy in 4D.
We prove a bubble-neck decomposition together with an energy quantization result for sequences of Willmore surfaces into an arbitrary euclidian space with uniformly bounded energy and non-degenerating conformal type. We deduce the strong compactness of Willmore closed surfaces of a given genus modulo the Möbius group a…
Study p-Willmore disks with boundary energies, finding equilibrium configurations.
problem Finding equilibrium configurations for p-Willmore disks with boundary energies.
method Model boundary as Kirchhoff elastic rod, interior term dependent on mean and Gaussian curvatures. Study among topological disks and p-Willmore examples.
result Equilibrium configurations for p-Willmore disks with boundary energies.
In this paper we build an explicit example of a minimal bubble on a Willmore surface, showing there cannot be compactness for Willmore immersions of Willmore energy above 16π. Additionnally we prove an inequality on the second residue for limits sequences of Willmore immersions with simple minimal bubbles. Doing so,…
Magnitude of Euclidean domains predicts Willmore energy in odd dimensions.
problem Magnitude function of compact domains in odd dimensions.
method Asymptotic expansion of magnitude function at infinity.
result Magnitude function determines Willmore energy of boundary in odd dimensions.
Rigidity for 4D Willmore submanifolds with boundary.
problem Understanding critical points of Willmore energy with boundary conditions.
method Proving a 4-Willmore equation and establishing curvature estimates.
result Four dimensional Willmore submanifolds with totally geodesic boundary are umbilic.
We introduce a notion of generalized Willmore functionals motivated by the Hawking energy of General Relativity and bending energies of membranes. An example of a bending energy is discussed in detail. Using results of Y. Chen and J. Li, we present a compactness result for branched, immersed, haunted, stratified surfac…
We establish an energy quantization result for sequences of Willmore surfaces when the underlying sequence of Riemann surfaces is degenerating in the moduli space. we notably exhibit a new residue which quantifies the potential loss of energy in collar regions. Thanks to these residues, we also prove compactness of Wil…
Li-Yau inequality applied to curves in 2D space.
problem Curves in 2D space with low elastic energy.
method Classical Li-Yau inequality applied to curves.
result Analogous results for curves in 2D space with low elastic energy.
In this paper, we show that, under arbitrary bounded Willmore energy assumption, embedded Willmore spheres (or more generally, embedded Willmore spheres under area constraint) with small diameter in a given 3-dimensional Riemannian manifold (M,h) necessarily concentrate at a critical point of the scalar curvature …
Study of immersions with Willmore energy leading to spherical and catenoid bubbles.
problem Classifying immersions with specific energy properties.
method Analyzing sequences of weak immersions with diverging conformal classes, applying Möbius transformations, and strong Wloc2,2-limits. result Obtaining spherical and catenoid bubbles as limits of immersions.
Proves strict inequality for minimizers of Willmore energy under isoperimetric constraints.
problem Minimizing the Willmore energy under isoperimetric constraints.
method Connected sum approach, building on previous work by Keller-Mondino-Rivière.
result Existence of minimizers for the isoperimetric constrained Willmore problem in every genus.
Paper finds relations between Willmore-type energies, weighted areas, and vertical potential energies for cylindrical critical points.
problem Tackles relations between three types of energy functions for cylindrical critical points.
method Uses differential equations and critical point analysis for Willmore-type energies and weighted areas.
result Generating curves coincide for Willmore-type energies and weighted areas, and similar results hold for Willmore-type energies and vertical potential energies.
The paper proves a reverse isoperimetric inequality and applies it to analyze surface flows.
problem Analyzing the negative gradient flow of the Willmore energy plus volume.
method Proved a quantitative reverse isoperimetric inequality and applied it to the flow.
result Initial surfaces converge to a round point in finite or infinite time.
Study proposes a nonlocal approximation of the Willmore functional using fractional Allen-Cahn energies.
problem Approximating the Willmore functional using nonlocal methods.
method Gamma-convergence and fractional Laplacian analysis in Fermi coordinates.
result Proves Γ-limsup estimate for the proposed nonlocal approximation. For every two-dimensional torus T2 and every k∈N, k≥3, we construct a conformal Willmore immersion f:T2→R4 with exactly one point of density k and Willmore energy 4πk. Moreover, we show that the energy value 8π cannot be attained by such an immersion. Additionally, we charact…
Willmore flow converges globally for surfaces with rotational symmetry below a specific energy threshold.
problem Global existence and convergence of Willmore flow with Dirichlet boundary conditions.
method Considered surfaces with rotational symmetry, proved global existence and convergence for initial data below a sharp energy threshold.
result Sharp threshold for global existence and convergence of Willmore flow depends on boundary conditions.
Study compact Willmore surfaces without complex structure convergence, computing energy loss and geodesic lengths.
problem Compactness of Willmore surfaces without complex structure convergence.
method Compute energy loss in neck and geodesic lengths in Grassmannian G(2,n). result Limit of Gauss map image is a geodesic in G(2,n) with computable length. Study minimizes Willmore energy with constraints on surface properties.
problem Minimizing Willmore energy under specific surface properties.
method Adapting Keller-Mondino-Rivière, Bauer-Kuwert, and Ndiaye-Schätzle methods.
result Existence of smooth minimizers for a broad range of constraints.
Delaunay tori minimize Willmore energy under isoperimetric constraints.
problem Finding minimizers of the Willmore energy under isoperimetric constraints.
method Constructing Delaunay tori using complete elliptic integrals and analyzing their Willmore energy.
result Existence of smoothly embedded tori minimizing the Willmore functional under isoperimetric constraints.
For a bounded smooth domain in the plane and smooth boundary data we consider the minimisation of the Willmore functional for graphs subject to Dirichlet or Navier boundary conditions. For H2-regular graphs we show that bounds for the Willmore energy imply area and diameter bounds. We then consider the L1-lower s…
Proves energy quantization for surfaces with bounded index.
problem Energy quantization for Willmore surfaces with bounded index.
method Translated the question to the conformal Gauss map's perspective and showed convergence in specific regions.
result Conformal Gauss map converges to a light-like geodesic in De Sitter space in neck or collar regions.
We prove that the critical points of various energies such as the area, the Willmore energy, the frame energy for tori...etc among possibly branched immersions constrained to evolve within a smooth sub-manifold of the Teichmüller space satisfy the corresponding constrained Euler Lagrange equation. We deduce that critic…
Study bounds CMC surface index in 3-manifolds using energy.
problem Bounding the index of CMC surfaces in 3-manifolds.
method Energy comparison to prove linear upper bound.
result Linear upper bound on CMC surface index.
We study a class of fourth-order geometric problems modelling Willmore surfaces, conformally constrained Willmore surfaces, isoperimetrically constrained Willmore surfaces, bi-harmonic surfaces in the sense of Chen, among others. We prove several local energy estimates and derive a global gap lemma.
In 1965 Willmore conjectured that the integral of the square of the mean curvature of a torus immersed in R3 is at least 2π2 and attains this minimal value if and only if the torus is a Möbius transform of the Clifford torus. This was recently proved by Marques and Neves. In this paper, we show for tori there is …
We develop a general Minmax procedure in Euclidian spaces for constructing Willmore surfaces of non zero indices. We implement this procedure to the Willmore Minmax Sphere Eversion in the 3 dimensional euclidian space. We compute the cost of the Sphere eversion in terms of Willmore energies of Willmore Spheres in ${\R}…
Study on bending knots and energy changes in 3D space.
problem Understanding energy changes in knots under small deformations.
method Analyzes infinitesimal bending of knots and energy changes using Willmore and Mobius energies.
result Changes in energy under small deformations of knots have been quantified.
The paper shows deformations between minimal surfaces in Sn+2 and Hn+2.
problem Deformation of minimal surfaces between Sn+2 and Hn+2. method Willmore deformation approach.
result Existence of smooth families of Willmore surfaces connecting minimal surfaces in Sn+2 and Hn+2.