The stability conjecture for Willmore tori
The stability conjecture for Willmore tori
A Willmore torus is called stable when the second variation of the Willmore functional is nonnegative, equivalently when the Jacobi operator satisfies
The Clifford torus is the standard homogeneous Willmore torus. Stability conjecture. The only stable Willmore torus is the Clifford torus. The source cites evidence from spectral-genus classifications and establishes the claim for Hopf Willmore tori, but does not resolve it for all Willmore tori.
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Primary source
Lynn Heller and Franz Pedit, “Towards a constrained Willmore conjecture”, arXiv:1705.03217 (2017).
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