On the Moduli of Isotropic and Helical Minimal Immersions between Spheres
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DoCarmo-Wallach theory and its subsequent refinements assert the rich abundance of spherical minimal immersions, minimal immersions of round spheres into round spheres. A spherical minimal immersion can be written as a conformal minimal immersion f : Sm → SV with domain the Euclidean m-sphere Sm and range the unit sphere SV of a Euclidean vector space V . Takahashi’s theorem then implies that the conformality constant of f can only This work was carried out during the sabbatical leave of the first author at Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey, USA.
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