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We construct a scalar polynomial curvature invariant that transforms covariantly under a conformal transformation from any spherically symmetric metric. This invariant has the additional property that it vanishes on the event horizon of any…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-26 David D. McNutt , Don N. Page

We obtain in arbitrary codimension a removability result on the order of singularity of Willmore surfaces realising the width of Willmore min-max problems on spheres. As a consequence, out of the twelve families of non-planar minimal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-23 Alexis Michelat , Tristan Rivière

Constrained Willmore surfaces are critical points of the Willmore functional under conformal variations. As shown in [5] one can associate to any conformally immersed constrained Willmore torus f a compact Riemann surface \Sigma, such that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-20 Lynn Heller

This paper is dedicated to the exploration of the conformal Willmore functional for surfaces within 4-dimensional conformal manifolds. We provide a detailed calculation of both the first and second variations, and present the Euler-Lagrange…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Changping Wang , Zhenxiao Xie

We provide a natural generalization to submanifolds of the holographic method used to extract higher-order local invariants of both Riemannian and conformal embeddings, some of which depend on a choice of parallelization of the normal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-07 Samuel Blitz , Josef Šilhan

We study immersed surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$ which are critical points of the Willmore functional under boundary constraints. The two cases considered are when the surface meets a plane orthogonally along the boundary, and when the boundary…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Ernst Kuwert , Tobias Lamm

In this paper we extend Efimov's Theorem by proving that any complete surface in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with Gauss curvature bounded above by a negative constant outside a compact set has finite total curvature, finite area and is properly…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-08-11 José A. Gálvez , Antonio Martínez , José L. Teruel

The invariant theory for conformal hypersurfaces is studied by treating these as the conformal infinity of a conformally compact manifold: For a given conformal hypersurface embedding, a distinguished ambient metric is found (within its…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-15 A. Rod Gover , Andrew Waldron

In the search for appropriate discretizations of surface theory it is crucial to preserve such fundamental properties of surfaces as their invariance with respect to transformation groups. We discuss discretizations based on M\"obius…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-08-25 Alexander I. Bobenko

A regularization procedure developed in [1] for the integral curvature invariants on manifolds with conical singularities is generalized to the case of squashed cones. In general, the squashed conical singularities do not have rotational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Dmitri V. Fursaev , Alexander Patrushev , Sergey N. Solodukhin

We propose the study of a conformally invariant functional for surfaces of complex projective plane which is closely related to the classical Willmore functional. We show that minimal surfaces of complex projective plane are critical for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sebastian Montiel , Francisco Urbano

In this work we present new fundamental tools for studying the variations of the Willmore functional of immersed surfaces into $R^m$. This approach gives for instance a new proof of the existence of a Willmore minimizing embedding of an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-07-20 Tristan Rivière

We obtain in arbitrary codimension a removability result on the order of singularity of weak limits and bubbles of Willmore immersions measured by the second residue. This permits to reduce significantly the number of possible bubbling…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-24 Alexis Michelat , Tristan Rivière

The paper introduces the spirality character of the almost fiber part for a closed essentially immersed subsurface of a closed orientable aspherical 3-manifold, which generalizes an invariant due to Rubinstein and Wang. The subsurface is…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-03-27 Yi Liu

The isoperimetric ratio of an embedded surface in $R^3$ is defined as the ratio of the area of the surface to power three to the squared enclosed volume. The aim of the present work is to study the minimization of the Willmore energy under…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-03-27 Laura Gioia Andrea Keller , Andrea Mondino , Tristan Rivière

The article investigates the behaviour of the characteristic zero resolution invariant when transcribed suitably to the case of surfaces in positive characteristic. By Moh's jumping phenomenon -- or the occurrence of kangaroo singularities…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-03-27 Herwig Hauser , Dominique Wagner

A conformally invariant generalization of the Willmore energy for compact immersed submanifolds of even dimension in a Riemannian manifold is derived and studied. The energy arises as the coefficient of the log term in the renormalized area…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-04-13 C. Robin Graham , Nicholas Reichert

We found a class of triangulated surfaces in Euclidean space which have similar properties as isothermic surfaces in Differential Geometry. We call a surface isothermic if it admits an infinitesimal isometric deformation preserving the mean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-02-16 Wai Yeung Lam , Ulrich Pinkall

Extensions of the generalized Weierstrass representation to generic surfaces in 4D Euclidean and pseudo-Euclidean spaces are given. Geometric characteristics of surfaces are calculated. It is shown that integrable deformations of such…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 B. G. Konopelchenko , G. Landolfi

Conformal invariance plays a significant role in many areas of Physics, such as conformal field theory, renormalization theory, turbulence, general relativity. Naturally, it also plays an important role in geometry: theory of Riemannian…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-06-12 Tristan Rivière