00887nas a2200145 4500008004100000022001400041245006300055210005800118260000800176300001400184490000700198520047000205100002000675856004600695 2013 eng d a1559-002X00aThe Conformal Willmore Functional: A Perturbative Approach0 aConformal Willmore Functional A Perturbative Approach cApr a764–8110 v233 a
The conformal Willmore functional (which is conformal invariant in general Riemannian manifolds $(M,g)$ is studied with a perturbative method: the Lyapunov–Schmidt reduction. Existence of critical points is shown in ambient manifolds $(\mathbb{R}^3,g_\epsilon)$ – 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.
1 aMondino, Andrea uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s12220-011-9263-3