Proper Biharmonic Submanifolds Research Articles

Biharmonic homogeneous submanifolds in compact symmetric spaces and compact Lie groups

We give a necessary and sufficient condition for orbits of commutative Hermann actions and actions of the direct product of two symmetric subgroups on compact Lie groups to be biharmonic in terms of symmetric triad with multiplicities. By this criterion, we determine all the proper biharmonic submanifolds in irreducible symmetric spaces of compact type which are singular orbits of commutative Hermann actions of cohomogeneity two. Also, in compact simple Lie groups, we determine all the biharmonic hypersurfaces which are regular orbits of actions of the direct product of two symmetric subgroups which are associated to commutative Hermann actions of cohomogeneity one.

A SHORT NOTE ON BIHARMONIC SUBMANIFOLDS IN 3-DIMENSIONAL GENERALIZED (𝜅, 𝜇)-MANIFOLDS

We characterize proper biharmonic anti-invariant surfaces in 3-dimensional generalized (<TEX>${\kappa}$</TEX>, <TEX>${\mu}$</TEX>)-manifolds with constant mean curvature by means of the scalar curvature of the ambient space and the mean curvature. In addition, we give a method for constructing infinity many examples of proper biharmonic submanifolds in a certain 3-dimensional generalized (<TEX>${\kappa}$</TEX>, <TEX>${\mu}$</TEX>)-manifold. Moreover, we determine 3-dimensional generalized (<TEX>${\kappa}$</TEX>, <TEX>${\mu}$</TEX>)-manifolds which admit a certain kind of proper biharmonic foliation.

Biharmonic submanifolds into ellipsoids

In this paper we construct proper biharmonic submanifolds into various types of ellipsoids. We also prove, in this context, some useful composition properties which can be used to produce large families of new proper biharmonic immersions.

Biharmonic PNMC submanifolds in spheres

We obtain several rigidity results for biharmonic submanifolds in $\mathbb{S}^{n}$ with parallel normalized mean curvature vector field. We classify biharmonic submanifolds in $\mathbb{S}^{n}$ with parallel normalized mean curvature vector field and with at most two distinct principal curvatures. In particular, we determine all biharmonic surfaces with parallel normalized mean curvature vector field in $\mathbb{S}^n$. Then we investigate, for (not necessarily compact) proper biharmonic submanifolds in $\mathbb{S}^n$, their type in the sense of B-Y. Chen. We prove: (i) a proper biharmonic submanifold in $\mathbb{S}^n$ is of 1-type or 2-type if and only if it has constant mean curvature ${\mcf}=1$ or ${\mcf}\in(0,1)$, respectively; (ii) there are no proper biharmonic 3-type submanifolds with parallel normalized mean curvature vector field in $\mathbb{S}^n$.

On the generalized Chen's conjecture on biharmonic submanifolds

The generalized Chen's conjecture on biharmonic submanifolds asserts that any biharmonic submanifold of a non-positively curved manifold is minimal (see e.g., [CMO1], [MO], [BMO1], [BMO2], [BMO3], [Ba1], [Ba2], [Ou1], [Ou2], [IIU]). In this paper, we prove that this conjecture is false by constructing foliations of proper biharmonic hyperplanes in a 5-dimensional conformally flat space with negative sectional curvature. Many examples of proper biharmonic submanifolds of non-positively curved spaces are also given.

Proper biharmonic submanifolds in a sphere

In this paper, we obtain a constraint of the mean curvature for proper biharmonic submanifolds in a sphere. We give some characterizations of some proper biharmonic submanifolds with parallel mean curvature vector in a sphere. We also construct some new examples of proper biharmonic submanifolds in a sphere.

Biharmonic submanifolds with parallel mean curvature vector field in spheres

We present some results on the boundedness of the mean curvature of proper biharmonic submanifolds in spheres. A partial classification result for proper biharmonic submanifolds with parallel mean curvature vector field in spheres is obtained. Then, we completely classify the proper biharmonic submanifolds in spheres with parallel mean curvature vector field and parallel Weingarten operator associated to the mean curvature vector field.

Biharmonic submanifolds of $${\mathbb{C}P^n}$$

We give some general results on proper-biharmonic submanifolds of a complex space form and, in particular, of the complex projective space. These results are mainly concerned with submanifolds with constant mean curvature or parallel mean curvature vector field. We find the relation between the bitension field of the inclusion of a submanifold \({\bar{M}}\) in \({\mathbb{C}P^n}\) and the bitension field of the inclusion of the corresponding Hopf-tube in \({\mathbb{S}^{2n+1}}\). Using this relation we produce new families of proper-biharmonic submanifolds of \({\mathbb{C}P^n}\). We study the geometry of biharmonic curves of \({\mathbb{C}P^n}\) and we characterize the proper-biharmonic curves in terms of their curvatures and complex torsions.

Classification results for biharmonic submanifolds in spheres

We study biharmonic submanifolds of the Euclidean sphere that satisfy certain geometric properties. We classify: (i) the biharmonic hypersurfaces with at most two distinct principal curvatures; (ii) the conformally flat biharmonic hypersurfaces. We obtain some rigidity results for pseudoumbilical biharmonic submanifolds of codimension 2 and for biharmonic surfaces with parallel mean curvature vector field. We also study the type, in the sense of B-Y. Chen, of compact proper biharmonic submanifolds with constant mean curvature in spheres.