TY - JOUR
T1 - Willmore hypersurfaces with constant Möbius curvature in Rn+1
AU - Li, Tongzhu
AU - Ma, Xiang
AU - Wang, Changping
PY - 2013/10
Y1 - 2013/10
N2 - For an immersed hypersurface f: Mn → Rn+1 without umbilical points, one can define the Möbius metric g on f which is invariant under the Möbius transformation group. The volume functional of g is a generalization of the well-known Willmore functional, whose critical points are called Willmore hypersurfaces. In this paper, we prove that if a n-dimensional Willmore hypersurfaces (n ≥ 3) has constant sectional curvature c with respect to g, then c = 0, n = 3, and this Willmore hypersurface is Möbius equivalent to the cone over the Clifford torus in S3 ⊂ R4. Moreover, we extend our previous classification of hypersurfaces with constant Möbius curvature of dimension n ≥ 4 to n = 3, showing that they are cones over the homogeneous torus S1(r) × S1(√1 - r2) ⊂ S3, or cylinders, cones, rotational hypersurfaces over certain spirals in the space form R 2, S 2, H 2, respectively.
AB - For an immersed hypersurface f: Mn → Rn+1 without umbilical points, one can define the Möbius metric g on f which is invariant under the Möbius transformation group. The volume functional of g is a generalization of the well-known Willmore functional, whose critical points are called Willmore hypersurfaces. In this paper, we prove that if a n-dimensional Willmore hypersurfaces (n ≥ 3) has constant sectional curvature c with respect to g, then c = 0, n = 3, and this Willmore hypersurface is Möbius equivalent to the cone over the Clifford torus in S3 ⊂ R4. Moreover, we extend our previous classification of hypersurfaces with constant Möbius curvature of dimension n ≥ 4 to n = 3, showing that they are cones over the homogeneous torus S1(r) × S1(√1 - r2) ⊂ S3, or cylinders, cones, rotational hypersurfaces over certain spirals in the space form R 2, S 2, H 2, respectively.
KW - Möbius metric
KW - Möbius sectional curvature
KW - Willmore hypersurface
KW - conformally flat hypersurface
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84883823243&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10711-012-9794-1
DO - 10.1007/s10711-012-9794-1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84883823243
SN - 0046-5755
VL - 166
SP - 251
EP - 267
JO - Geometriae Dedicata
JF - Geometriae Dedicata
IS - 1
ER -