Willmore submanifolds in a sphere
Abstract
Let be an -dimensional submanifold in an -dimensional unit sphere , is called a Willmore submanifold to the following Willmore functional: where is the square of the length of the second fundamental form, is the mean curvature of . In [13], author proved an integral inequality of Simon's type for -dimensional compact Willmore hypersurfaces in and gave a characterization of {\it Willmore tori}. In this paper, we generalize this result to -dimensional compact Willmore submanifolds in . In fact, we obtain an integral inequality of Simon's type for compact Willmore submanifolds in and give a characterization of {\it willmore tori} and {\it Veronese surface} by use of integral inequality.
Cite
@article{arxiv.math/0210239,
title = {Willmore submanifolds in a sphere},
author = {Haizhong Li},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0210239},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
18 pages. To appear in Mathematical Research Letter