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In this paper, close surfaces are considered in 3-dimensional harmonic conformally flat space in point of the variation. It is shown that if the conformal vector field be tangent to surface and the sign of the mean curvature does not change…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-08-16 Najma mosadegh , Esmaiel Abedi

We describe the curves of constant (geodesic) curvature and torsion in the three-dimensional round sphere. These curves are the trajectory of a point whose motion is the superposition of two circular motions in orthogonal planes. The global…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-10-17 Debraj Chakrabarti , Rahul Sahay , Jared Williams

This work is dedicated to the study of the Moebius invariant class of constrained Willmore surfaces and its symmetries. We define a spectral deformation by the action of a loop of flat metric connections; Baecklund transformations, by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-07-24 Áurea Casinhas Quintino

We introduce the moduli space of spectral curves of constant mean curvature (\cmc\hspace{-5pt}) cylinders of finite type in the round unit 3-sphere. The subset of spectral curves of mean-convex Alexandrov embedded cylinders is explicitly…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-11 L. Hauswirth , M. Kilian , M. U. Schmidt

The Clifford torus is a torus in a three-dimensional sphere. Homogeneous tori are simple generalization of the Clifford torus which still in a three-dimensional sphere. There is a way to construct tori in a three-dimensional sphere using…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-02-20 Katsuhiro Moriya

Since constant mean curvature surfaces in 3-space are special cases of isothermic and constrained Willmore surfaces, they give rise to three, apriori distinct, integrable systems. We provide a comprehensive and unified view of these…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Katrin Leschke

In this paper we develop the theory of Willmore sequences for Willmore surfaces in the 4-sphere. We show that under appropriate conditions this sequence has to terminate. In this case the Willmore surface either is the twistor projection of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-06-10 K. Leschke , F. Pedit

A new approach is proposed for study structure and properties of the total squared mean curvature $W$ of surfaces in ${\bf R}^3$. It is based on the generalized Weierstrass formulae for inducing surfaces. The quantity $W$ (Willmore…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 B. G. Konopelchenko , I. A. Taimanov

First introduced to describe surfaces embedded in $\mathbb{R}^3$, the Willmore invariant is a conformally-invariant extrinsic scalar curvature of a surface that vanishes when the surface minimizes bending and stretching. Both this invariant…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-01-25 Samuel Blitz

In this note, we generalize a characterization of the Clifford torus due to Ros. Let $f:M\rightarrow S^{n+1}$ be an embedded closed minimal hypersurface. Assume there are $(n+2)$ great hyperspheres of $S^{n+1}$ perpendicular to each other,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-11-02 Changping Wang , Peng Wang

Those maps of a closed surface to the three-dimensional torus that are homotopic to embeddings are characterized. Particular attention is paid to the somewhat intricate case when the surface is nonorientable.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Allan L. Edmonds

We consider unbranched Willmore surfaces in the Euclidean space that arise as inverted complete minimal surfaces with embedded planar ends. Several statements are proven about upper and lower bounds on the Morse Index - the number of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-05-23 Jonas Hirsch , Elena Mäder-Baumdicker

We study the geometric properties of Darboux transforms of constant mean curvature (CMC) surfaces and use these transforms to obtain an algebro-geometric representation of constant mean curvature tori. We find that the space of all Darboux…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-04-11 Emma Carberry , Katrin Leschke , Franz Pedit

The (n+1)-sphere contains a simple family of constant mean curvature (CMC) hypersurfaces which are products of lower-dimensional spheres called the generalized Clifford hypersurfaces. This paper demonstrates that new, topologically…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Adrian Butscher , Frank Pacard

Let M be a closed, orientable, irreducible, non-simply connected 3-manifold. We prove that if M admits a sequence of Riemannian metrics whose sectional curvature is locally controlled and whose thick part becomes asymptotically hyperbolic…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2008-01-28 Laurent Bessières , Gérard Besson , Michel Boileau , Sylvain Maillot , Joan Porti

The Willmore Problem seeks closed surfaces in $\mathbb{S}^3\subset\mathbb{R}^4$ of a given topological type minimizing the squared-mean-curvature energy $W = \int |H_{\mathbb{R}^4}|^2 = area + \int |H_{\mathbb{S}^3}|^2$. The longstanding…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Rob Kusner , Ying Lü , Peng Wang

In this article, the author investigates flow lines of the classical Willmore flow, which start to move in a smooth parametrization of a Hopf-torus in $\mathbb{S}^3$. We prove that any such flow line of the Willmore flow exists globally, in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Ruben Jakob

By works of Schoen-Yau and Gromov-Lawson any Riemannian manifold with nonnegative scalar curvature and diffeomorphic to a torus is isometric to a flat torus. Gromov conjectured subconvergence of tori with respect to a weak Sobolev type…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-06-29 Armando J. Cabrera Pacheco , Christian Ketterer , Raquel Perales

We use bifurcation theory to show the existence of infinite sequences isometric embeddings of tori with constant mean curvature (CMC) in Euclidean spheres that are not isometrically congruent to the CMC Clifford tori, and accumulating at…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-11-25 Luis J. Alias , Paolo Piccione

Building on work of Kapouleas and Yang, we construct sequences of minimal surfaces embedded in the round 3-sphere which converge to the Clifford torus counted with multiplicity two and have second fundamental form blowing up at every point…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-03 David Wiygul