Akutagawa–Maeta conjecture for complete biharmonic Euclidean submanifolds

Let MM be a complete submanifold of Euclidean space En\mathbb{E}^n. An isometric immersion ϕ:(M,g)En\phi:(M,g)\rightarrow\mathbb{E}^n is biharmonic when its bitension field satisfies τ2(ϕ)=0\tau_2(\phi)=0, and MM is minimal when its mean curvature vanishes. Akutagawa–Maeta conjecture. Every complete biharmonic submanifold in En\mathbb{E}^n is minimal. This is the global, completeness-assuming reformulation of Chen's conjecture. The source presents it as a problem in global differential geometry and does not give a resolution of the general case.

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Primary source

Shun Maeta, “Biharmonic maps from a complete Riemannian manifold into a non-positively curved manifold”, arXiv:1305.7065 (2013).

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2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2012–2013). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1208.0473.

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