Biharmonic maps in two dimensions

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Abstract: Biharmonic maps between surfaces are studied in this paper. We compute the bitension field of a map between surfaces with conformal metrics in complex coordinates. As applications, we show that a linear map from Euclidean plane into is always biharmonic if the conformal factor sigma is bi-analytic; we construct a family of such sigma, and we give a classification of linear biharmonic maps between 2-spheres. We also study biharmonic maps between surfaces with warped product metrics. This includes a classification of linear biharmonic maps between hyperbolic planes and some constructions of many proper biharmonic maps into a circular cone or a helicoid.


The authors study biharmonic maps between surfaces with conformal metrics in complex coordinates. They compute the bitension field and they apply their result to linear maps between various surfaces.











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