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Publications of SPP2026

On this site you find preprints and publications produced within the projects and with the support of the DFG priority programme „Geometry at Infinity“.

16Minimizer of the Willmore energy with prescribed rectangular conformal class

Starting at a saddle tower surface, we give a new existence proof of the Lawson surfaces ξm,k of high genus by deforming the corresponding DPW potential. As a byproduct, we obtain for fixed m estimates on the area of ξm,k in terms of their genus g=mk≫1.

 

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16Minimizer of the Willmore energy with prescribed rectangular conformal class

We show that the homogeneous and the 2-lobe Delaunay tori in the 3-sphere provide the only isothermic constrained Willmore tori in 3-space with Willmore energy below 8π. In particular, every constrained Willmore torus with Willmore energy below 8π and non-rectangular conformal class is non-degenerated.

 

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16Minimizer of the Willmore energy with prescribed rectangular conformal class

We study immersed tori in 3-space minimizing the Willmore energy in their respective conformal class. Within the rectangular conformal classes (0,b) with $b\rightarrow 1$ the homogenous tori are known to be unique constrained Willmore minimizers (up to invariance). In this paper we generalize the result and determine constrained Willmore minimizers in non-rectangular conformal classes (a,b). In a first step we explicitly construct a 2-dimensional family of putative minimizers parametrized by their conformal class (a,b). For $b\rightarrow 1$, b≠1 fixed, this family is then shown to minimize for $a\rightarrow 0^+$. Difficulties arise from the fact that these minimizers are non-degenerate for a≠0 but smoothly converge to the degenerate homogenous tori as a→0. As a byproduct of our arguments, we show that the minimal Willmore energy ω(a,b) is real analytic and concave in a∈(0, a^b) for some b>0 and fixed $b \rightarrow 1$, 

 

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16Minimizer of the Willmore energy with prescribed rectangular conformal class