This paper studies conformal biharmonic immersions. We first study the transformations of Jacobi operator and the bitension field under conformal change of metrics. We then obtain an invariant equation for a conformal biharmonic immersion of a surface into Euclidean 3-space. As applications, we construct a 2-parameter family of non-minimal conformal biharmonic immersions of cylinder into R and ...

We study biharmonic hypersurfaces in a generic Riemannian manifold. We first derive an invariant equation for such hypersurfaces generalizing the biharmonic hypersurface equation in space forms studied in [16], [8], [6], [7]. We then apply the equation to show that the generalized Chen’s conjecture is true for totally umbilical biharmonic hypersurfaces in an Einstein space, and construct a (2-p...

We consider in dimension four weakly convergent sequences of approximate biharmonic maps into sphere with bi-tension fields bounded in L for some p > 1. We prove an energy identity that accounts for the loss of Hessian energies by the sum of Hessian energies over finitely many nontrivial biharmonic maps on R.

In this article we prove the regularity of weakly biharmonic maps of domains in Euclidean four space into spheres, as well as the corresponding partial regularity result of stationary biharmonic maps of higher-dimensional domains into spheres. c © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Introduction In this article we consider the notion of biharmonic maps and begin an analytic study of the regularity pro...

This is a survey on harmonic maps and biharmonic maps into (1) Riemannian manifolds of non-positive curvature, (2) compact Lie groups or (3) compact symmetric spaces, based mainly on my recent works on these topics.

A. In this paper, by applying the first variation formula of f -bi-energy given in [OND], we study f -biharmonic maps between doubly warped product manifolds M ×(μ,λ) N. Under imposing existence condition concerning proper f -biharmonic maps, we derive f -biharmonicity’s characteristic equations for the inclusion maps: iy0 : (M, g) → (M ×(μ,λ) N, ḡ), ix0 : (N, h) → (M ×(μ,λ) N, ḡ) and th...

In this paper, the reduction of biharmonic map equation in terms of the Maurer-Cartan form for all smooth map of an arbitrary compact Riemannian manifold into a compact Lie group (G, h) with bi-invariant Riemannian metric h is obtained. By this formula, all biharmonic curves into compaqct Lie groups are determined, and all the biharmonic maps of an open domain of R with the conformal metric of ...

A. Both bi-harmonic map and f -harmonic map have nice physical motivation and applications. In this paper, by combination of these two harmonic maps, we introduce and study f -bi-harmonic maps as the critical points of the f -bi-energy functional 1 2 ∫ M f |τ(φ)| dvg. This class of maps generalizes both concepts of harmonic maps and biharmonic maps. We first derive the f -biharmonic map ...