Linear biharmonic maps into Sol, Nil and Heisenberg spaces (Q2390703)

The authors study linear biharmonic maps from Euclidean space into Sol, Nil, and Heisenberg spaces. Recall that a biharmonic map is a critical point of the bienergy functional defined by the square norm of the tension field. The authors prove that a linear map from a Euclidean space into Sol, Nil, or Heisenberg space is biharmonic if and only if it is a harmonic map. They also give a complete description of such maps.