Existence of minimizing Willmore surfaces of prescribed conformal class

Details Existence of minimizing Willmore surfaces of prescribed conformal class Existence of minimizing Willmore surfaces of prescribed conformal class

2004-03-18

arxiv.org/abs/math/0403301v1

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Differential Geometry

43 pages

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We consider the class of all conformal mappings from a compact Riemann surface into the threedimensional or fourdimensional Euclidean space. A sequence in this class with bounded Willmore functional is shown to have a sequence of conformal transformations of the target space, such that a subsequence of the transformed sequence converges. This implies that there exists a smooth conformal mapping, which minimizes the Willmore functional in this class. For this purpose we extend the quaternionic function theory of Pedit and Pinkall to square integrable Hopf fields. In particular, we proof the Pluecker formula for such Hopf fields.

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