

Preprint 30/2012
The Willmore functional on isometric immersions
Peter Hornung
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Submission date: 30. May. 2012
Pages: 34
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Abstract:
We study the restriction of the Willmore functional to the class of isometric immersions of a given two-dimensional Riemannian manifold into three dimensional Euclidean space.