Special Session 88: 

Ends of Immersed Minimal and Willmore Surfaces in Asymptotically Flat Spaces

Yann L Bernard
Monash University
Australia
Co-Author(s):    Tristan Riviere
Abstract:
We study ends of an oriented, immersed, non-compact, complete Willmore surfaces, which are critical points of the integral of the square of the mean curvature, in asymptotically flat spaces of any dimension; assuming the surface has $L^2$-bounded second fundamental form and satisfies a weak power growth on the area. We give the precise asymptotic behavior of an end of such a surface. This asymptotic information is very much dependent on the way the ambient metric decays to the Euclidean one. Our results apply in particular to minimal surfaces in any codimension.