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A characterization of the Ejiri torus in $S^{5}$

Differential Geometry 2015-01-28 v1

Abstract

Ejiri's torus in S5S^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 SnS^{n} by reducing them into elastic curves in S3S^3, and the Ejiri torus appeared as a special example. In this paper, we first prove that among all Willmore tori of tensor product, the Willmore functional of the Ejiri torus in S5S^5 attains the minimum 2π232\pi^2\sqrt{3}. Then we show that all Willmore tori of tensor product are unstable when the co-dimension is big enough. We also show that the Ejiri torus is unstable in S5S^5. Moreover, similar to Li and Vrancken, we classify all constrained Willmore surfaces of tensor product by reducing them with elastic curves in S3S^3. All constrained Willmore tori obtained this way are also shown to be unstable when the co-dimension is big enough. We conjecture that a Willmore torus having Willmore functional between 2π22\pi^2 and 2π232\pi^2\sqrt{3} is either the Clifford torus, or the Ejiri torus.

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@article{arxiv.1501.06779,
  title  = {A characterization of the Ejiri torus in $S^{5}$},
  author = {Peng Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.06779},
  year   = {2015}
}

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