Index and nullity of proper biharmonic maps in spheres

DOI10.1142/S0219199719500871MaRDI QIDQ5152072zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Andrea Ratto, Stefano Montaldo, Cezar Oniciuc

Publication date 18 February 2021

Published in Communications in Contemporary Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.01621

zbMATH Keywords

bienergyindexnullityproper biharmonic mapssecond variation operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometric aspects of harmonic maps (53C43) Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20)

Abstract: In recent years, the study of the bienergy functional has attracted the attention of a large community of researchers, but there are not many examples where the second variation of this functional has been thoroughly studied. We shall focus on this problem and, in particular, we shall compute the exact index and nullity of some known examples of proper biharmonic maps. Moreover, we shall analyse a case where the domain is not compact. More precisely, we shall prove that a large family of proper biharmonic maps $varphi:mathbbRomathbb{S}^2$ is strictly stable with respect to compactly supported variations. In general, the computations involved in this type of problems are very long. For this reason, we shall also define and apply to specific examples a suitable notion of index and nullity with respect to equivariant variations.

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