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First explicit constrained Willmore minimizers of non-rectangular conformal class

Differential Geometry 2022-03-03 v3

Abstract

We study immersed tori in 33-space minimizing the Willmore energy in their respective conformal class. Within the rectangular conformal classes   (0,b)  \;(0,b)\; with   b1  \;b \sim 1\; the homogenous tori   fb  \;f^b\; are known to be the unique constrained Willmore minimizers (up to invariance). In this paper we generalize this result and show that the candidates constructed in \cite{HelNdi2} are indeed constrained Willmore minimizers in certain non-rectangular conformal classes   (a,b).  \;(a,b).\; Difficulties arise from the fact that these minimizers are non-degenerate for   a0  \;a \neq 0\; but smoothly converge to the degenerate homogenous tori   fb  \;f^b\; as   a0.  \;a \longrightarrow 0.\; As a byproduct of our arguments, we show that the minimal Willmore energy   ω(a,b)  \;\omega(a,b)\; is real analytic and concave in   a(0,ab)  \;a \in (0, a^b)\; for some   ab>0  \;a^b>0\; and fixed   b1,  \;b \sim 1,\; b1.b \neq 1.

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@article{arxiv.1710.00533,
  title  = {First explicit constrained Willmore minimizers of non-rectangular conformal class},
  author = {Lynn Heller and Cheikh Birahim Ndiaye},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.00533},
  year   = {2022}
}

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