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Willmore spheres in the 3-sphere revisited

Differential Geometry 2020-03-17 v1

Abstract

Bryant \cite{Bryant84} classified all Willmore spheres in 33-space to be given by minimal surfaces in R3\mathbb R^3 with embedded planar ends. This note provides new explicit formulas for genus 0 minimal surfaces in R3\mathbb R^3 with 2k+12k+1 embedded planar ends for all k4.k\geq4. Peng and Xiao claimed these examples to exist in \cite{PengXiao2000}, but in the same paper they also claimed the existence of a minimal surface with 7 embedded planar ends, which was falsified by Bryant \cite{Bryant88}.

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@article{arxiv.2003.06922,
  title  = {Willmore spheres in the 3-sphere revisited},
  author = {Sebastian Heller},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.06922},
  year   = {2020}
}

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