Legendrian Willmore conjecture for positive-genus surfaces

Let S5C3\mathbb{S}^5\subset\mathbb{C}^3 be the unit sphere, and let ΣHS5\Sigma_H\subset\mathbb{S}^5 be the hexagonal Legendrian minimal torus. For a Legendrian surface ΣS5\Sigma\subset\mathbb{S}^5, write WCR[Σ]\mathcal{W}_{CR}[\Sigma] for its CR-Willmore energy. Legendrian Willmore conjecture. If ΣS5\Sigma\subset\mathbb{S}^5 is a Legendrian surface of positive genus, then

WCR[Σ]WCR[ΣH]=433π2.\mathcal{W}_{CR}[\Sigma]\geq\mathcal{W}_{CR}[\Sigma_H]=\frac{4\sqrt{3}}{3}\pi^2.

Equality should hold if and only if Σ\Sigma differs from ΣH\Sigma_H by an isometry of S5\mathbb{S}^5. This is the Legendrian analogue of the Willmore conjecture; for tori it is equivalent to a conjecture of Wang, and it is related to questions about Willmore-type energies of Lagrangian tori in CP2\mathbb{CP}^2.

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Jacob Bernstein and Arunima Bhattacharya, “The CR-Volume of Horizontal Submanifolds of Spheres”, arXiv:2401.11357 (2024).

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