Biharmonic maps from a complete Riemannian manifold into a non-positively curved manifold

Abstract: We consider biharmonic maps

p h i : (M, g) i g h t a r r o w (N, h)

from a complete Riemannian manifold into a Riemannian manifold with non-positive sectional curvature. Assume that

a l p h a

satisfies

1 < a l p h a < i n f t y

. If for such an

a l p h a

,

i n t_{M} | a u (p h i) |^{a l p h a} d v_{g} < i n f t y

and

i n t_{M} | d p h i |^{2} d v_{g} < i n f t y,

where

a u (p h i)

is the tension field of

p h i

, then we show that

p h i

is harmonic. For a biharmonic submanifold, we obtain that the above assumption

i n t_{M} | d p h i |^{2} d v_{g} < i n f t y

is not necessary. These results give affirmative partial answers to the global version of generalized Chen's conjecture.

Review text

Let \(\phi : (M,g)\rightarrow (N,h)\) be a biharmonic map from a complete Riemannian manifold into a Riemannian manifold with non-positive sectional curvature. Let us denote by \(\tau(\phi)\) the tension field of \(\phi\) and let \(p\in [2,+\infty)\). The main result of this article is that if \(\int_{M}|\tau(\phi)|^{p}dv_{g}<\infty\) and \(\int_{M}|d\phi |^{2}dv_{g}<\infty\) then \(\phi\) is harmonic. Furthermore, the authors show that if \(Vol(M,g)=\infty\) then the assumption \(\int_{M}|d\phi |^{2}dv_{g}<\infty\) is not necessary.

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