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Classification of Homogeneous Willmore Surfaces in $S^N$

Differential Geometry 2018-05-10 v1

Abstract

In this note we consider homogeneous Willmore surfaces in Sn+2S^{n+2}. The main result is that a homogeneous Willmore two-sphere is conformally equivalent to a homogeneous minimal two-sphere in Sn+2S^{n+2}, i.e., either a round two-sphere or one of the Bor\r{u}vka-Veronese 2-spheres in S2mS^{2m}. This entails a classification of all Willmore CP1\mathbb{C} P^1 in S2mS^{2m}. As a second main result we show that there exists no homogeneous Willmore upper-half plane in Sn+2S^{n+2} and we give, in terms of special constant potentials, a simple loop group characterization of all homogeneous surfaces which have an abelian transitive group.

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@article{arxiv.1805.03632,
  title  = {Classification of Homogeneous Willmore Surfaces in $S^N$},
  author = {Josef F. Dorfmeister and Peng Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.03632},
  year   = {2018}
}