Energy reduction for Fourth order Willmore energy

Abstract

We introduce a fourth-order Willmore-type problem for closed four-dimensional submanifolds immersed in Rn and establish a connected sum energy reduction for the general fourth-order Willmore energy, analogous to the seminal result of Bauer and Kuwert Bauer-Kuwert03.

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