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Higher-dimensional Willmore energies via minimal submanifold asymptotics
Mathematical Physics Seminar| Speaker: | Robin Graham, University of Washington, Seattle |
| Location: | 432 Physics |
| Start time: | Thu, Nov 12 2015, 3:10PM |
This talk will describe a derivation of a conformally invariant energy for an even-dimensional submanifold of a Riemannian manifold generalizing the Willmore energy of a surface. The energy and its associated Euler-Lagrange equation both arise naturally upon considering the asymptotics of minimal submanifolds in asymptotically Poincar\'e-Einstein spaces associated to the background conformal manifold.