Willmore's conjecture for tori in the three-sphere

Let W(Σ)=Σ(1+H2),dμ\mathcal W(\Sigma)=\int_{\Sigma}(1+H^2)\\,d\mu denote the Willmore energy of a compact surface ΣS3\Sigma\subset S^3, where HH is its mean curvature. Willmore's conjecture. Every compact surface ΣS3\Sigma\subset S^3 of genus one must satisfy

W(Σ)2π2.\mathcal W(\Sigma)\geq 2\pi^2.

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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