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View SchemaLinear Quantitative Rigidity for Almost-CMC Surfaces
| Authors | Yuchen Bi, Jie Zhou |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | 2601.09457vv1 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.09457 |
| License | http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ |
Abstract
We prove a quantitative rigidity result for almost constant mean curvature spheres in $\mathbb{R}^3$. Under a sub--two--sphere Willmore bound and a small $L^2$--CMC defect, we show that an almost--CMC surface is close to the round sphere, with linear control of the $W^{2,2}$--distance of the parametrization and the $L^\infty$--norm of the conformal factor. An analogous statement holds under an a priori area bound below that of two spheres.The proof relies on a linearized analysis around the sphere. A previously established qualitative rigidity result provides the initial closeness required to enter the perturbative regime. The estimate further extends to integral $2$--varifolds of unit density using known regularity and density results.
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