Sasaki manifolds, Kähler cone manifolds and biharmonic submanifolds (Q491468)

Harmonic maps between Riemannian manifolds are critical points of the energy functional, and biharmonic maps are critical points of the bienergy functional given by the square norm of the tension field. Notice that harmonic maps are always biharmonic by definition. In this paper, the author studies harmonicity and biharmonicity of the Lagrangian cone submanifold of a Kähler manifold given by a cone of Sasakian manifold. Recall that a contact metric manifold \((N^{2m+1}, h, J, \xi, \eta)\) with a smooth \((1,1)\) tensor \(J\), a smooth vector field \(\xi\) and a contact form \(\eta\) is Sasakian if the cone \((C(N), \bar h, I)\) is a Kähler manifold, where \(\bar h\) is a cone metric and \(I\) is an almost complex structure on \(C(N)\). The author proves that for a Legendrian submanifold \(\varphi: (M^m, g) \to (N^{2m+1}, g)\) of a Sasakian manifold \((N, h)\) and the Lagrangian cone submanifold \(\bar \varphi: (C(M), \bar g) \to (C(N), \bar h)\) of a K\(\ddot{\text a}\)hler cone manifold, the map \(\bar \varphi: (C(M), \bar g) \to (C(N), \bar h)\) is biharmonic if and only if it is harmonic, which is equivalent to that \(\varphi: (M^m, g) \to (N^{2m+1}, g)\) is harmonic, and \(\varphi: (M^m, g) \to (N^{2m+1}, g)\) is proper biharmonic if and only if the tension field \(\tau (\bar \varphi)\) is a nonzero eigen-section of the Jacobi operator \(J_{\bar \varphi}\) with the eigenvalue \(m = \dim M\). Recall that a map is proper biharmonic map if is biharmonic, but not harmonic.