Biharmonic curves in the generalized Heisenberg group (Q2568863)
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Biharmonic curves in the generalized Heisenberg group (English)
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20 October 2005
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A map between Riemannian manifolds is called biharmonic if it is a critical point of the bi-energy functional defined by the integral of the norm square of the tension field. Harmonic maps are biharmonic with absolute minimum of the bi-energy. In this paper the author explicitly calculates all relevant data for curves in a Heisenberg group. Using this, he exhibits examples of biharmonic, nonharmonic curves.
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biharmonic map
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tension field
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Heisenberg group
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