Surfaces in three-dimensional space forms with divergence-free stress-bienergy tensor (Q2015004)

The authors introduce the notion of biconservative surfaces. They first find the PDE that satisfies the mean curvature function of a biconservative surface in a three dimensional space form. Then, the paper is devoted to the local classification of biconservative surfaces in three dimensional space forms. This is done in three sections in which they examine separately the cases of surfaces in the Euclidean space, in the sphere and in the hyperbolic space.