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 coming from an immersion of . The quantization of Willmore energy shows that there exists an integer such that . Then we show that . The proof relies on an explicit computation relating the second derivative of for with the Jacobi operator of the minimal surface in 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}
}