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.
References
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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