%0 Journal Article %J Journal of Geometric Analysis %D 2013 %T The Conformal Willmore Functional: A Perturbative Approach %A Andrea Mondino %X

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.

%B Journal of Geometric Analysis %V 23 %P 764–811 %8 Apr %G eng %U https://doi.org/10.1007/s12220-011-9263-3 %R 10.1007/s12220-011-9263-3