Non-rotational SO(4)-equivariant Willmore surfaces

These Willmore surfaces in the 3-sphere are each invariant under a 1-parameter subgroup of $SO(4)$. Such a subgroup acts by $(z,w) \mapsto (e^{it}z, e^{r it}w)$, where $r$ is real. The case $r=0$ is surfaces of revolution (not shown here). The images are stereographic projections to ${\mathbb R}^3$, and therefore also Willmore surfaces in ${\mathbb R}^3$.         Read about this work...