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Morse Index of Willmore spheres in $S^3$

Differential Geometry 2016-03-31 v1 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We obtain an upper bound for the Morse index of Willmore spheres ΣS3\Sigma\subset S^3 coming from an immersion of S2S^2. The quantization of Willmore energy shows that there exists an integer mm such that W(Σ)=4πm\mathscr{W}(\Sigma)=4\pi m. Then we show that IndW(Σ)m\mathrm{Ind}_{\mathscr{W}}(\Sigma)\leq m. The proof relies on an explicit computation relating the second derivative of W\mathscr{W} for Σ\Sigma with the Jacobi operator of the minimal surface in R3\mathbb{R}^3 it is the image of by stereographic projection thanks of the fundamental classification of Robert Bryant.

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@article{arxiv.1603.09269,
  title  = {Morse Index of Willmore spheres in $S^3$},
  author = {Alexis Michelat},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.09269},
  year   = {2016}
}