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New symmetric Willmore tori emerge from Clifford torus in Berger spheres.

Ejiri's torus in $S^5$ is the first example of Willmore surface which is not conformally equivalent to any minimal surface in any space forms. Li and Vrancken classified all Willmore surfaces of tensor product in $S^{n}$ by reducing them into elastic curves in $S^3$, and the Ejiri torus appeared as a special example. I…

Study of tori of revolution under Willmore flow converges to Clifford Torus.

In 1965 Willmore conjectured that the integral of the square of the mean curvature of a torus immersed in $R^3$ is at least $2π^2$ 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 …

The paper studies Willmore surfaces in 4D conformal manifolds and finds the Clifford torus is strictly Willmore-stable.

The Clifford torus minimizes Willmore energy closely for small perturbations.

Constrained Willmore surfaces are critical points of the Willmore functional under conformal variations. As shown in [5] one can associate to any conformally immersed constrained Willmore torus f a compact Riemann surface Σ, such that f can be reconstructed in terms of algebraic data on Σ. Particularly interesting exam…

New criteria found for Willmore submanifolds in Lie group orbits.

The Clifford torus is unique when its isoperimetric ratio is prescribed.

Researchers identify only two types of tori with specific energy constraints.

We discuss the minimum of Willmore functional of torus in a Riemannian manifold $N$, especially for the case that $N$ is a product manifold. We show that when $N=S^2\times S^1$, the minimum of $W(T^2)$ is 0, and when $N=R^2\times S^1$, there exists no torus having least Willmore functional. When $N=H^2(-c)\times S^1$, …

For every two-dimensional torus $T^2$ and every $k\in \mathbb{N}$, $k\ge 3$, we construct a conformal Willmore immersion $f:T^2\to \mathbb{R}^4$ 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…

In this paper we study equivariant constrained Willmore tori in the 3-sphere. These tori admit a 1-parameter group of Möbius symmetries and are critical points of the Willmore energy under conformal variations. We show that the associated spectral curve of an equivariant torus is given by a double covering of $\mathbb …

In 1965, T. J. Willmore conjectured that the integral of the square of the mean curvature of a torus immersed in Euclidean three-space is at least 2π^2. We prove this conjecture using the min-max theory of minimal surfaces.

A Euclidean minimal torus with planar ends gives rise to an immersed Willmore torus in the conformal 3--sphere $S^3=\R^3\cup \{\infty\}$. The class of Willmore tori obtained this way is given a spectral theoretic characterization as the class of Willmore tori with reducible spectral curve. A spectral curve of this type…

A neural flow method minimizes Willmore energy for 2-surfaces in 3D space.

The Willmore conjecture states that any immersion F:T^2 -> R^n of a 2-torus into flat euclidean space satisfies $\int_{T^2} H^2\geq 2π^2$. We prove it under the condition that the L^p-norm of the Gaussian curvature is sufficiently small.

The paper studies the behavior of Möbius-invariant Willmore flow in 3-sphere, proving convergence to Clifford torus.

Researchers prove a Willmore conjecture for surfaces with specific symmetries.

Proves Willmore conjecture for surfaces with specific symmetries.

We discuss several kinds of Willmore surfaces of flat normal bundle in this paper. First we show that every S-Willmore surface with flat normal bundle in $S^n$ must locate in some $S^3\subset S^n$, from which we characterize Clifford torus as the only non-equatorial homogeneous minimal surface in $S^n$ with flat normal…

The study classifies surfaces in Berger spheres as Willmore and Hopf tori.

Researchers create families of tori minimizing Willmore energy.

The paper proves global existence and convergence of Möbius-invariant Willmore flow in 3-sphere.

We prove that a constrained Willmore immersion of a 2-torus into the conformal 4-sphere is either of "finite type", that is, has a spectral curve of finite genus, or is of "holomorphic type" which means that it is super conformal or Euclidean minimal with planar ends. This implies that all constrained Willmore tori in …

We study Willmore surfaces of constant Moebius curvature $K$ in $S^4$. It is proved that such a surface in $S^3$ must be part of a minimal surface in $R^3$ or the Clifford torus. Another result in this paper is that an isotropic surface (hence also Willmore) in $S^4$ of constant $K$ could only be part of a complex curv…

Delaunay tori minimize Willmore energy under isoperimetric constraints.

The Willmore conjecture, proposed in 1965, concerns the quest to find the best torus of all. This problem has inspired a lot of mathematics over the years, helping bringing together ideas from subjects like conformal geometry, partial differential equations, algebraic geometry and geometric measure theory. In this arti…

We show, that higher analogs of the Willmore functional, defined on the space of immersions M^2\rightarrow R^3, where M^2 is a two-dimensional torus, R^3 is the 3-dimensional Euclidean space are invariant under conformal transformations of R^3. This hypothesis was formulated recently by I.A.Taimanov (dg-ga/9610013). Hi…

Researchers resolve the compactness problem for helicoidal minimal surfaces in 3-sphere.

The study characterizes embedded minimal hypersurfaces in $S^{n+1}$ with symmetries.

A proof of the Willmore conjecture is presented. With the help of the global Weierstrass representation the variational problem of the Willmore functional is transformed into a constrained variational problem on the moduli space of all spectral curves corresponding to periodic solutions of the Davey-Stewartson equation…

The paper is devoted to study the Dirichelet energy of moving frames on 2-dimensional tori immersed in the euclidean $3\leq m$-dimensional space. This functional, called Frame energy, is naturally linked to the Willmore energy of the immersion and on the conformal structure of the abstract underlying surface. As first …

The Willmore energy of a closed surface in R^n is the integral of its squared mean curvature, and is invariant uner Möbius transformations of R^n. We show that any torus in R^3 with energy at most $8 π-delta$ has a representative under the Möbius action, for which the induced metric and a conformal metric of constant (…

A conformal immersion of a 2-torus into the 4-sphere is characterized by an auxiliary Riemann surface, its spectral curve. This complex curve encodes the monodromies of a certain Dirac type operator on a quaternionic line bundle associated to the immersion. The paper provides a detailed description of the geometry and …

Two years ago, F.C. Marques and A.A. Neves implemented, in the framework of closed rectifiable 2-dimensional currents of the 3-dimensional sphere, a min-max method in geometric measure theory due to F. Almgren and J. Pitts. Using this approach they succeeded in proving that the famous Clifford torus minimizes the area …

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…

The paper disproves compactness for high-energy Willmore immersions and finds minimal bubbles on Willmore surfaces.

Exploring conjectures in constrained Willmore problem.

We show that any equation from the Davey--Stewartson hierarchy induces an infinite family of geometrically different deformations of tori in $\R^4$ preserving the Willmore functional. We expose a derivation of the Weierstrass representation for surfaces in the four-space which is not unique in difference from the case …

We show how to assign to any immersed torus in $\R^3$ or $S^3$ a Riemann surface such that the immersion is described by functions defined on this surface. We call this surface the spectrum or the spectral curve of the torus. The spectrum contains important information about conformally invariant properties of the toru…

Paper proves convergence for Willmore immersions with minimal bubbles.

Willmore flow preserves low energy surfaces to planes.

Study fourth-order geometric problems on Willmore surfaces.

New proof of Willmore conjecture using tori minimizers.

Survey of Willmore surfaces in spheres using DPW method.

Rigidity for 4D Willmore submanifolds with boundary.

The paper classifies Willmore Legendrian surfaces in S^5 and studies their properties.