The higher-genus constrained Willmore conjecture for rectangular conformal types

Let gg be a genus and let a surface of genus gg have a conformal type called rectangular in the sense used for the quotient by the cyclic (g+1)(g+1)-fold symmetry of Lawson's minimal surface ξg,1\xi_{g,1}. Let the constant-mean-curvature analogs of ξg,1\xi_{g,1} denote the corresponding one-parameter family of embedded constant-mean-curvature surfaces. Higher genus conjecture. The constrained minimizer of the Willmore energy in a rectangular conformal class of genus gg is the constant-mean-curvature analog of Lawson's minimal surface ξg,1\xi_{g,1}. The source reports experimental support and notes existence of constrained minimizers in the relevant classes when the Willmore energy is less than 8π8\pi, but the general minimizing assertion remains open.

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Lynn Heller and Franz Pedit, “Towards a constrained Willmore conjecture”, arXiv:1705.03217 (2017).

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