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Willmore Surfaces of Constant Moebius Curvature

Differential Geometry 2007-09-12 v2

Abstract

We study Willmore surfaces of constant Moebius curvature KK in S4S^4. It is proved that such a surface in S3S^3 must be part of a minimal surface in R3R^3 or the Clifford torus. Another result in this paper is that an isotropic surface (hence also Willmore) in S4S^4 of constant KK could only be part of a complex curve in C2R4C^2\cong R^4 or the Veronese 2-sphere in S4S^4. It is conjectured that they are the only examples possible. The main ingredients of the proofs are over-determined systems and isoparametric functions.

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@article{arxiv.math/0609057,
  title  = {Willmore Surfaces of Constant Moebius Curvature},
  author = {Xiang Ma and Changping Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0609057},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

16 pages. Mistakes occured in the proof to the main theorem (Thm 3.6) has been corrected

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