Higher Regularity of Weak Limits of Willmore Immersions II

Abstract

We obtain in arbitrary codimension a removability result on the order of singularity of Willmore surfaces realising the width of Willmore min-max problems on spheres. As a consequence, out of the twelve families of non-planar minimal surfaces in ${\mathbb{R}}^3$ of total curvature greater than $-12\pi$, only three of them may occur as conformal images of bubbles in Willmore min-max problems.

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