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Main Authors: Allen, Ben F., Gover, Rod
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.01835
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author Allen, Ben F.
Gover, Rod
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Gover, Rod
contents We define and construct a conformally invariant energy for closed smoothly immersed submanifolds of even dimension, but of arbitrary codimension, in conformally flat Riemannian manifolds. This is a higher dimensional analogue of the Willmore energy for immersed surfaces and is given directly via a coupling of the tractor connection to the (submanifold critical) GJMS operators. In the case where the submanifold is of dimension 4 we compare this to other energies, including one found using a second simple construction that uses $Q$-operators.
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spellingShingle Higher Willmore Energies from tractor coupled GJMS operators
Allen, Ben F.
Gover, Rod
Differential Geometry
We define and construct a conformally invariant energy for closed smoothly immersed submanifolds of even dimension, but of arbitrary codimension, in conformally flat Riemannian manifolds. This is a higher dimensional analogue of the Willmore energy for immersed surfaces and is given directly via a coupling of the tractor connection to the (submanifold critical) GJMS operators. In the case where the submanifold is of dimension 4 we compare this to other energies, including one found using a second simple construction that uses $Q$-operators.
title Higher Willmore Energies from tractor coupled GJMS operators
topic Differential Geometry
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.01835