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- Biharmonic hypersurfaces with three distinct principal curvatures in Euclidean space
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Biharmonic hypersurfaces with three distinct principal curvatures in Euclidean 5-space (English)
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Biharmonic hypersurfaces with three distinct principal curvatures in Euclidean space (English)
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10 January 2014
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30 December 2015
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A submanifold \(M\) with isometric immersion \(x: M \to\mathbb E^n\) is called biharmonic if \(\Delta^2x=0\) for a rough Laplacian \(\Delta\). In 1991, \textit{B.-Y. Chen} conjectured that all biharmonic submanifolds of Euclidean spaces are minimal [Soochow J. Math 17, No. 2, 169--188 (1991; Zbl 0749.53037)]. While this conjecture in its general form remains open, substantial progress has been made under additional assumptions. It holds, for example, for hypersurfaces in dimension four [\textit{T. Hasanis} and \textit{T. Vlachos}, Math. Nachr. 172, 145--169 (1995; Zbl 0839.53007)]. In the present contribution, the author proves Chen's conjecture for biharmonic hypersurfaces in Euclidean spaces of dimension five under the assumption of exactly three distinct principal curvatures. In a remark, he announces a proof for biharmonic hypersurfaces with three distinct principal curvatures in dimension \(n\).
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Consider an isometric immersion \(x:M^n\longrightarrow {\mathbb E}^m\) of an \(n\)-dimensional manifold \(M^n\) into \(m\)-dimensional Euclidean space and \(\Delta\) the Laplace operator of the induced metric on \(M^n\). It is well known that \(\Delta x=-n \overrightarrow H\) where \( \overrightarrow H\) is the mean curvature vector. The submanifold is \textit{biharmonic} if \(\Delta \overrightarrow H=0\), equivalently \(\Delta^2x=0\). In [Soochow J. Math. 17, No. 2, 169--188 (1991; Zbl 0749.53037)], \textit{B.-Y. Chen} conjectured that every biharmonic submanifold of Euclidean space is minimal and many partial results exist. In the present paper, the author proves that every biharmonic hypersurface with three distinct principal curvatures in a Euclidean space is minimal. As a corollary, the author proves that every biharmonic \(\mathrm O(p)\times \mathrm O(q)\)-invariant hypersurface in \({\mathbb E}^{p+q}\) is minimal.
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biharmonic submanifold
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mean curvature vector
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Chen's conjecture
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biharmonic submanifolds
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principal curvatures
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