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.     

$\delta$-拼挤流形中的2-调和子流形

We study biharmonic submanifolds in δ-pinched Riemannian manifolds, and obtain some sufficient conditions for biharmonic submanifolds to be minimal ones.     

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. Dedicated to Professor Vasile Oproiu on his 65th birthday The first author was supported by a INdAM doctoral fellowship, Italy. The second author was supported by PRIN 2005, Italy. The third author was supported by Grant CEEX ET 5871/2006, Romania     

A note on biharmonic submanifolds of product spaces

We investigate biharmonic submanifolds of the product of two space forms. We prove a necessary and sufficient condition for biharmonic submanifolds in these product spaces. Then, we obtain mean curvature estimates for proper-biharmonic submanifold of a product of two unit spheres. We also prove a non-existence result in the case of the product of a sphere and a hyperbolic space.     

般伪黎曼流形中的2-调和类空子流形

本文研究了一般伪黎曼流形中的2-调和类空子流形的有关性质.利用活动标架法和Hopf原理,给出了2-调和子流形是极大的几个充分条件,得到一个Simons型积分不等式并推广了相关结果.     

Submanifolds in de sitter space-time satisfying ΔH=λH

In [3] the author initiated the study of submanifolds whose mean curvature vectorH is an eigenvector of the Laplacian Δ and proved that such submanifolds are either biharmonic or of 1-type or of null 2-type. The classification of surfaces with ΔH=λH in a Euclidean 3-space was done by the author in 1988. Moreover, in [4] the author classified such submanifolds in hyperbolic spaces. In this article we study this problem for space-like submanifolds of the Minkowski space-timeE ₁ ^m when the submanifolds lie in a de Sitter space-time. As a result, we characterize and classify such submanifolds in de Sitter space-times.     

Biharmonic PNMC submanifolds in spheres

We obtain several rigidity results for biharmonic submanifolds in $\mathbb{S}^{n}$ with parallel normalized mean curvature vector fields. We classify biharmonic submanifolds in $\mathbb{S}^{n}$ with parallel normalized mean curvature vector fields and with at most two distinct principal curvatures. In particular, we determine all biharmonic surfaces with parallel normalized mean curvature vector fields 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 that (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 f=1 or f∈(0,1), respectively; and (ii) there are no proper-biharmonic 3-type submanifolds with parallel normalized mean curvature vector fields in $\mathbb{S}^{n}$ .     

Biharmonic Riemannian submersions from 3-manifolds

An important theorem about biharmonic submanifolds proved independently by Chen-Ishikawa (Kyushu J Math 52(1):167?C185, 1998) and Jiang (Chin Ann Math Ser. 8A:376?C383, 1987) states that an isometric immersion of a surface into 3-dimensional Euclidean space is biharmonic if and only if it is harmonic (i.e, minimal). In a later paper, Caddeo et?al. (Isr J Math 130:109?C123, 2002) showed that the theorem remains true if the target Euclidean space is replaced by a 3-dimensional hyperbolic space form. In this paper, we prove the dual results for Riemannian submersions, i.e., a Riemannian submersion from a 3-dimensional space form into a surface is biharmonic if and only if it is harmonic.     

Biharmonic properly immersed submanifolds in Euclidean spaces

We consider a complete biharmonic immersed submanifold M in a Euclidean space ${\mathbb{E}^N}$ . Assume that the immersion is proper, that is, the preimage of every compact set in ${\mathbb{E}^N}$ is also compact in M. Then, we prove that M is minimal. It is considered as an affirmative answer to the global version of Chen’s conjecture for biharmonic submanifolds.