Hopf Reduction and Multiplicity-Resolved Endpoints for the Classical Willmore Flow of Hopf Tori
We establish an exact parametrized reduction of the classical Willmore flow of Hopf tori in the round three-sphere to the spherical elastic flow. In Willmore-flow time the reduction is $(\partial_t\gamma)^{\perp}=-4\nabla_{L^2}\mathcal E(\gamma)$; its global reconstruction uses a pullback-circle-bundle normalization an...