Willmore Surfaces of Revolution: Profile Curves.

Rotational Willmore surfaces in ${\mathbb S}^3$ can be described as a 2-parameter family, with real parameters $(m,\beta)$. Representative samples are obtained by taking $m=0$ and varying $\beta$. Then the surface is conformally congruent to a minimal surface in ${\mathbb S}^3$ if and only if $|\beta|<1$, to a minimal surface in ${\mathbb R}^3$ if and only if $|\beta|=1$, and otherwise to a minimal surface in ${\mathbb H}^3$.         Read about this work...