The Willmore flow of Hopf-tori in the $3$-sphere

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contents In this article, the author investigates flow lines of the classical Willmore flow, which start to move in a smooth parametrization of a Hopf-torus in $\mathbb{S}^3$. We prove that any such flow line of the Willmore flow exists globally, in particular does not develop any singularities, and subconverges to some smooth Willmore-Hopf-torus in every $C^{m}$-norm. Moreover, if in addition the Willmore energy of the initial immersion $F_0$ is required to be smaller than or equal to the threshold $\frac{8π^2}{\sqrt{2}}$, then the unique flow line of the Willmore flow, starting to move in $F_0$, converges fully to a conformally transformed Clifford torus in every $C^{m}$-norm, up to time dependent, smooth reparametrizations. Key instruments for the proofs are the equivariance of the Hopf-fibration $π:\mathbb{S}^3 \longrightarrow \mathbb{S}^2$ w.r.t. the effect of the $L^2$-gradient of the Willmore energy applied to smooth Hopf-tori in $\mathbb{S}^3$ and to smooth closed regular curves in $\mathbb{S}^2$, a particular version of the Lojasiewicz-Simon gradient inequality, and a well-known classification and description of smooth, arc-length parametrized solutions of the Euler-Lagrange equation of the elastic energy functional in terms of Jacobi Elliptic Functions and Elliptic Integrals, dating back to the 80s.
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spellingShingle The Willmore flow of Hopf-tori in the $3$-sphere
Jakob, Ruben
Analysis of PDEs
53C42, 53E40, 35R01, 58J35, 11Z05
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In this article, the author investigates flow lines of the classical Willmore flow, which start to move in a smooth parametrization of a Hopf-torus in $\mathbb{S}^3$. We prove that any such flow line of the Willmore flow exists globally, in particular does not develop any singularities, and subconverges to some smooth Willmore-Hopf-torus in every $C^{m}$-norm. Moreover, if in addition the Willmore energy of the initial immersion $F_0$ is required to be smaller than or equal to the threshold $\frac{8π^2}{\sqrt{2}}$, then the unique flow line of the Willmore flow, starting to move in $F_0$, converges fully to a conformally transformed Clifford torus in every $C^{m}$-norm, up to time dependent, smooth reparametrizations. Key instruments for the proofs are the equivariance of the Hopf-fibration $π:\mathbb{S}^3 \longrightarrow \mathbb{S}^2$ w.r.t. the effect of the $L^2$-gradient of the Willmore energy applied to smooth Hopf-tori in $\mathbb{S}^3$ and to smooth closed regular curves in $\mathbb{S}^2$, a particular version of the Lojasiewicz-Simon gradient inequality, and a well-known classification and description of smooth, arc-length parametrized solutions of the Euler-Lagrange equation of the elastic energy functional in terms of Jacobi Elliptic Functions and Elliptic Integrals, dating back to the 80s.
title The Willmore flow of Hopf-tori in the $3$-sphere
topic Analysis of PDEs
53C42, 53E40, 35R01, 58J35, 11Z05
G.0
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.01006