@article {Mondino2013, title = {The Conformal Willmore Functional: A Perturbative Approach}, journal = {Journal of Geometric Analysis}, volume = {23}, number = {2}, year = {2013}, month = {Apr}, pages = {764{\textendash}811}, abstract = {

The conformal Willmore functional (which is conformal invariant in general Riemannian manifolds $(M,g)$ is studied with a perturbative method: the Lyapunov{\textendash}Schmidt reduction. Existence of critical points is shown in ambient manifolds $(\mathbb{R}^3,g_\epsilon)$ {\textendash} where $g_\epsilon$ is a metric close and asymptotic to the Euclidean one. With the same technique a non-existence result is proved in general Riemannian manifolds $(M,g)$ of dimension three.

}, issn = {1559-002X}, doi = {10.1007/s12220-011-9263-3}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s12220-011-9263-3}, author = {Andrea Mondino} }