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 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 . An analogous estimate is also obtained for surfaces of fixed genus 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.
Cite
@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}
}