Biharmonic submanifolds in metallic Riemannian manifolds

In this paper, we study the biharmonic submanifolds of Riemannian manifolds endowed with metallic and complex metallic structures. In case of both the structures, we obtain the necessary and sufficient conditions for a submanifold to be biharmonic. Particularly, we find the estimates for mean curvature of Lagrangian and complex surfaces.

Classification of f-biharmonic submanifolds in Lorentz space forms

In this paper, f-biharmonic submanifolds with parallel normalized mean curvature vector field in Lorentz space forms are discussed. When f f is a constant, we prove that such submanifolds have parallel mean curvature vector field with the minimal polynomial of the shape operator of degree ≤ 2 \le 2 . When f f is a function, we completely classify such pseudo-umbilical submanifolds.

Chen’s Biharmonic Conjecture and Submanifolds with Parallel Normalized Mean Curvature Vector

The well known Chen’s conjecture on biharmonic submanifolds in Euclidean spaces states that every biharmonic submanifold in a Euclidean space is a minimal one. For hypersurfaces, we know from Chen and Jiang that the conjecture is true for biharmonic surfaces in E 3 . Also, Hasanis and Vlachos proved that biharmonic hypersurfaces in E 4 ; and Dimitric proved that biharmonic hypersurfaces in E m with at most two distinct principal curvatures. Chen and Munteanu showed that the conjecture is true for δ ( 2 ) -ideal and δ ( 3 ) -ideal hypersurfaces in E m . Further, Fu proved that the conjecture is true for hypersurfaces with three distinct principal curvatures in E m with arbitrary m. In this article, we provide another solution to the conjecture, namely, we prove that biharmonic surfaces do not exist in any Euclidean space with parallel normalized mean curvature vectors.