A duality theorem for a four dimensional Willmore energy
Abstract
We prove an analog of Bryant's duality theorem for a four dimensional Willmore energy obtained by Graham-Reichert and Zhang. We show that for an immersion from a four dimensional compact manifold without boundary into , the energy is equal to two energies on its conformal Gauss map . One defined only in terms of the image of , which is the analog of the area functional for Willmore surfaces, and an other one defined on maps from into the De Sitter space , which is the analog of the Dirichlet energy for Willmore surfaces. We prove that even when restricted to immersions of a given topological manifold , is never bounded from below on the set of immersions from into . We exhibit a second conformally invariant energy which is bounded from below and whose construction is closer to the two dimensional Willmore energy.
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@article{arxiv.2308.11433,
title = {A duality theorem for a four dimensional Willmore energy},
author = {Dorian Martino},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.11433},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
49pages, v2 : reference added and some typos corrected, v3 : typos corrected, corrections in the proof of Proposition I