Uniqueness conjecture for closed zero-energy minimizers in the Heisenberg group

Let H1\mathcal{H}_1 be the three-dimensional Heisenberg group, and let E1E_1 be the energy functional considered in the source. For \Greekmath011A0>0{\Greekmath 011A}_0>0, consider the shifted Heisenberg spheres

(r2+32\Greekmath011A02)2+4t2=\Greekmath011A04.(r^2+\frac{\sqrt{3}}{2}{\Greekmath 011A}_0^2)^2+4t^2={\Greekmath 011A}_0^4.

Uniqueness conjecture. The shifted Heisenberg spheres above are the only closed minimizers for E1E_1 with zero energy in H1\mathcal{H}_1. The source establishes that these spheres are closed minimizers with zero energy; the uniqueness among all closed minimizers is the conjectural part.

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Jih-Hsin Cheng, Paul Yang and Yongbing Zhang, “Invariant surface area functionals and singular Yamabe problem in 3-dimensional CR geometry”, arXiv:1711.04120 (2017).

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