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Rigidity and non-rigidity results for conformal immersions

Differential Geometry 2015-06-08 v2 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

In this paper we show a quantitative rigidity result for the minimizer of the Willmore functional among all projective planes in Rn\mathbb{R}^n with n4n\ge 4. We also construct an explicit counterexample to a corresponding rigidity result in codimension one, by showing that an Enneper surface might split-off during a blow-up process. For conformal immersions of spheres with large enough Willmore energies, we construct explicit counterexamples to a quantitative rigidity result and this complements the recently obtained rigidity results in [LaNg13].

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@article{arxiv.1408.2089,
  title  = {Rigidity and non-rigidity results for conformal immersions},
  author = {Tobias Lamm and Reiner M. Schätzle},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.2089},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

Minor modifications, to appear in Adv. Math

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