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On Willmore surfaces in S^n of flat normal bundle

Differential Geometry 2013-01-15 v1

Abstract

We discuss several kinds of Willmore surfaces of flat normal bundle in this paper. First we show that every S-Willmore surface with flat normal bundle in SnS^n must locate in some S3SnS^3\subset S^n, from which we characterize Clifford torus as the only non-equatorial homogeneous minimal surface in SnS^n with flat normal bundle, which improve a result of K. Yang. Then we derived that every Willmore two sphere with flat normal bundle in SnS^n is conformal to a minimal surface with embedded planer ends in R3\mathbb{R}^3. We also point out that for a class of Willmore tori, they have flat normal bundle if and only if they locate in some S3S^3. In the end, we show that a Willmore surface with flat normal bundle must locate in some S6S^6

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@article{arxiv.1301.2770,
  title  = {On Willmore surfaces in S^n of flat normal bundle},
  author = {Peng Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.2770},
  year   = {2013}
}

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14 pages, all comments are welcome

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