On the biharmonicity of vector fields and unit vector fields

DOI10.1007/S12220-021-00839-2MaRDI QIDQ2074720zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mohamed Tahar Kadaoui Abbassi, Souhail Doua

Publication date 10 February 2022

Published in The Journal of Geometric Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.00947

zbMATH Keywords

\(g\)-natural metricbiharmonic mapbiharmonic unit vector fieldbiharmonic vector fieldtangent bundleunit tangent bundle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20)

Abstract: Let $(M,g)$ be a compact Riemannian manifold. Equipping its tangent bundle $TM$ (resp. unit tangent bundle $T_{1}M$) by a pseudo-Riemannian $g$-natural metric $G$ (resp. $ildeG$), we study the biharmonicty of vector fields (resp. unit vector fields) as maps $(M,g)ightarrow(TM,G)$ (resp. $(M,g)ightarrow(T_{1}M,ildeG)$) as well as critical points of the bienergy functional restricted to the set $mathfrakX(M)$ (resp. $mathfrak{X}^1(M)$) of vector fields (resp. unit tangent bundles) on $M$. Contrary to the Sasaki metric on $TM$, where the two notions are equivalent to the harmonicity of the vector field and then to its parallelism, we prove that for large classes of $g$-natural metrics on $TM$ the two notions are not equivalent. Furthermore, we give examples of vector fields which are biharmonic as critical points of the bienergy functional restricted to $mathfrakX(M)$, but are not biharmonic maps. We provide equally examples of proper biharmonic vector fields (resp. unit vector fields), i.e. those which are biharmonic without being harmonic.

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