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Closed surfaces with bounds on their Willmore energy

Differential Geometry 2010-09-28 v1

Abstract

The Willmore energy of a closed surface in R^n is the integral of its squared mean curvature, and is invariant uner M\"obius transformations of R^n. We show that any torus in R^3 with energy at most 8πdelta8 \pi-delta has a representative under the M\"obius action, for which the induced metric and a conformal metric of constant (zero) curvature are uniformly equivalent, with constants depending only on delta>0delta>0. An analogous estimate is also obtained for surfaces of fixed genus p1p \geq 1 in R^3 or R^4, assuming suitable energy bounds which are sharp for n=3. Moreover the conformal type is controlled in terms of the energy bounds.

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@article{arxiv.1009.5286,
  title  = {Closed surfaces with bounds on their Willmore energy},
  author = {Ernst Kuwert and Reiner Schätzle},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.5286},
  year   = {2010}
}
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