Local Palais-Smale Sequences for the Willmore Functional
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چکیده
Using the reformulation in divergence form of the EulerLagrange equation for the Willmore functional as it was developed in the second author’s paper [Riv2], we study the limit of a local Palais-Smale sequence of weak Willmore immersions with locally square-integrable second fundamental form. We show that the limit immersion is smooth and that it satisfies the conformal Willmore equation: it is a critical point of the Willmore functional restricted to infinitesimal conformal variations.
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