Geometry Seminar

Minimal surfaces with Mobius boundary energy

Max Lipton (Cornell)

Friday, October 28th, 2022
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Hylan 202

The Mobius energy, introduced by O’Hara, is one of the most famous knot energies. In their seminal paper, Freedman-He-Wang proved its invariance under Mobius transformations along with the existence of minimizers for all prime knot types. I will go over some of their notable results and then outline some of my recent computations regarding stationary helicoidal strips with Mobius energy on the boundary components.

Event contact: skleene at ur dot rochester dot edu