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On the Uniqueness of Clifford Torus with Prescribed Isoperimetric Ratio

Differential Geometry 2020-03-31 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

The Marques-Neves theorem asserts that among all the torodial (i.e. genus 1) closed surfaces, the Clifford torus has the minimal Willmore energy H2dA\int H^2 \, dA. % It is a natural conjecture that if one prescribes the isoperimetric Since the Willmore energy is invariant M{\"o}bius transformations, it can be shown that there is a one-parameter family, up to homotheties, of genus 1 Willmore minimizers. It is then a natural conjecture that such a minimizer is unique if one prescribes its isoperimetric ratio. In this article, we show that this conjecture can be reduced to the positivity question of a polynomial recurrence.

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@article{arxiv.2003.13116,
  title  = {On the Uniqueness of Clifford Torus with Prescribed Isoperimetric Ratio},
  author = {Thomas Yu and Jingmin Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.13116},
  year   = {2020}
}