On Chen's biharmonic conjecture for hypersurfaces in \(\mathbb{R}^5\) (Q2020413)

A biharmonic submanifold is one whose defining isometric immersion is a biharmonic map. Biharmonic submanifolds are a generalization of minimal submanifolds as the latter are the images of harmonic isometric immersions. The well-known Chen's conjecture on biharmonic submanifold claims that any biharmonic submanifolds of a Euclidean space is minimal. For a recent survey on the progress on this subject see [\textit{Y.-L. Ou}, Contemp. Math. 674, 127--139 (2016; Zbl 1372.58011)], the recent book [\textit{Y.-L. Ou} and \textit{B.-Y. Chen}, Biharmonic submanifolds and biharmonic maps in Riemannian geometry. Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific (2020; Zbl 1455.53002)] and the references therein. For the case of hypersurfaces, Chen's conjecture was proven to be true for the hypersurfaces with at most three distinct principal curvatures through several stages by different works of Chen, Jiang, Dimitrić, Hasanis-Vlachos, Defever, and Fu. In the paper under review, the authors correct a mistake in [\textit{R. S. Gupta} and \textit{A. Sharfuddin}, J. Geom. 107, No. 3, 685--705 (2016; Zbl 1362.53013)] and prove that Chen's conjecture is true for any hypersurface in \(5\)-dimensional Euclidean space.