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Willmore deformations between minimal surfaces in $H^{n+2}$ and $S^{n+2}$

Differential Geometry 2020-11-03 v1

Abstract

In this paper we show that locally there exists a Willmore deformation between minimal surfaces in Sn+2S^{n+2} and minimal surfaces in Hn+2H^{n+2}, i.e., there exists a smooth family of Willmore surfaces {yt,t[0,1]}\{y_t,t\in[0,1]\} such that (yt)t=0(y_t)|_{t=0} is conformally equivalent to a minimal surface in Sn+2S^{n+2} and (yt)t=1(y_t)|_{t=1} is conformally equivalent to a minimal surface in Hn+2H^{n+2}. For some cases the deformations are global. Consider the Willmore deformations of the Veronese two-sphere and its generalizations in S4S^4, for any positive number W0R+W_0\in\mathbb R^+, we construct complete minimal surfaces in H4H^4 with Willmore energy being equal to W0W_0. An example of complete minimal M\"{o}bius strip in H4H^4 with Willmore energy 65π510.733π\frac{6\sqrt{5}\pi}{5}\approx10.733\pi is also presented. We also show that all isotropic minimal surfaces in S4S^4 admit Jacobi fields different from Killing fields, i.e., they are not "isolated".

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@article{arxiv.2011.00737,
  title  = {Willmore deformations between minimal surfaces in $H^{n+2}$ and $S^{n+2}$},
  author = {Changping Wang and Peng Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.00737},
  year   = {2020}
}

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29 pages, 1 figure. Comments are welcome

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