published on July 7, 2026
Boundary conditions and non kinematic free boundaries for wave-structure interactions
By David Lannes
$L^2$ curvature for surfaces in Riemannian manifolds
By Ernst Kuwert
Appears in collection : Problèmes variationnels et géométrie des sous-variétés / Variational Problems and the Geometry of Submanifolds
For surfaces immersed into a compact Riemannian manifold, we consider the curvature functional given by the $L^{2}$ integral of the second fundamental form. We discuss an area bound in terms of the energy, with application to the existence of minimizers. This is joint work with V. Bangert.
