Willmore's conjecture for tori in the three-sphere
Willmore's conjecture for tori in the three-sphere
Let denote the Willmore energy of a compact surface , where is its mean curvature. Willmore's conjecture. Every compact surface of genus one must satisfy
This is the stereographic-projection-equivalent formulation of Willmore's conjecture and was proved by Marques and Neves; equality occurs only for the Clifford torus, up to conformal transformations and the corresponding rigidity described in the paper.
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Primary source
Fernando C. Marques and André Neves, “The Willmore conjecture”, arXiv:1409.7664 (2014).
Additional references
2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2014). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1409.7537.
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