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On Willmore Legendrian surfaces in $\mathbb{S}^5$ and the contact stationary Legendrian Willmore surfaces

Differential Geometry 2017-06-01 v1

Abstract

In this paper we study Willmore Legendrian surfaces (that is Legendrian surfaces which are critical points of the Willmore functional). We use an equality proved in \cite{Luo} to get a relation between Willmore Legendrian surfaces and contact stationary Legendrian surfaces in S5\mathbb{S}^5, and then we use this relation to prove a classification result for Willmore Legendrian spheres in S5\mathbb{S}^5. We also get an integral inequality for Willmore Legendrian surfaces and in particular we prove that if the square length of the second fundamental form of a Willmore Legendrian surface in S5\mathbb{S}^5 belongs to [0,2][0,2], then it must either be 00 and LL is totally geodesic or 22 and LL is a flat minimal Legendrian tori, which generalizes a result of \cite{YKM}. We also study variation of the Willmore functional among Legendrian surfaces in 5-dimensional Sasakian manifolds. Let Σ\Sigma be a closed surface and (M,α,gα,J)(M,\alpha,g_\alpha,J) a 5-dimensional Sasakian manifold with a contact form α\alpha, an associated metric gαg_\alpha and an almost complex structure JJ. Assume that f:ΣMf:\Sigma\mapsto M is a Legendrian immersion. Then ff is called a contact stationary Legendrian Willmore surface (in short, a csL Willmore surface) if it is a critical point of the Willmore functional under contact deformations. To investigate the existence of csL Willmore surfaces we introduce a higher order flow which preserves the Legendre condition and decreases the Willmore energy. As a first step we prove that this flow is well posed if (M,α,gα,J)(M,\alpha,g_\alpha,J) is a Sasakian Einstein manifold, in particular S5\mathbb{S}^5.

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@article{arxiv.1705.11115,
  title  = {On Willmore Legendrian surfaces in $\mathbb{S}^5$ and the contact stationary Legendrian Willmore surfaces},
  author = {Yong Luo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.11115},
  year   = {2017}
}

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To appear in Calc. Var