Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 A Bundle Approach to Conformal Surfaces in Space-Forms
- 2 The Mean Curvature Sphere Congruence
- 3 Surfaces under Change of Flat Metric Connection
- 4 Willmore Surfaces
- 5 The Euler–Lagrange ConstrainedWillmore Surface Equation
- 6 Transformations of Generalized Harmonic Bundles and Constrained Willmore Surfaces
- 7 Constrained Willmore Surfaces with a Conserved Quantity
- 8 Constrained Willmore Surfaces and the Isothermic Surface Condition
- 9 The Special Case of Surfaces in 4-Space
- Appendix A Hopf Differential and Umbilics
- Appendix B Twisted vs. Untwisted Bäcklund Transformation Parameters
- References
- Index
3 - Surfaces under Change of Flat Metric Connection
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 May 2021
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 A Bundle Approach to Conformal Surfaces in Space-Forms
- 2 The Mean Curvature Sphere Congruence
- 3 Surfaces under Change of Flat Metric Connection
- 4 Willmore Surfaces
- 5 The Euler–Lagrange ConstrainedWillmore Surface Equation
- 6 Transformations of Generalized Harmonic Bundles and Constrained Willmore Surfaces
- 7 Constrained Willmore Surfaces with a Conserved Quantity
- 8 Constrained Willmore Surfaces and the Isothermic Surface Condition
- 9 The Special Case of Surfaces in 4-Space
- Appendix A Hopf Differential and Umbilics
- Appendix B Twisted vs. Untwisted Bäcklund Transformation Parameters
- References
- Index
Summary
In many occasions throughout this work, we use an interpretation of loop group theory by Burstall−Calderbank and produce transformations of surfaces by the action of loops of flat metric connections. Such connections are gauge equivalent to the trivial flat connection, and these gauge transformations can be used to produce new surfaces, defined up to Möbius transformations. An equivalent perspective is that of change of flat metric connection, replacing the trivial one by another flat metric connection on the Lorentzian trivial bundle.
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- Constrained Willmore SurfacesSymmetries of a Möbius Invariant Integrable System, pp. 45 - 48Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021