Chen's conjecture on biharmonic submanifolds in Euclidean spaces

Let MM be a biharmonic submanifold of a Euclidean space. Chen's conjecture. Every such submanifold is minimal. Chen, Ishikawa, and Jiang proved the claim for biharmonic surfaces in E3\mathbb{E}^3, and subsequent work established it for several low-dimensional hypersurface cases; the case of hypersurfaces in En+1\mathbb{E}^{n+1} for n6n\geq 6 remains open.

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Primary source

Shun Maeta and Miho Shito, “Classification of biharmonic Riemannian submersions from manifolds with constant sectional curvature”, arXiv:2509.05939 (2026).

Additional references

10 papers in this index state this conjecture (2011–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2403.10155, arXiv:2007.13589, arXiv:1505.06555, arXiv:1503.03596, arXiv:1308.0420, arXiv:1305.7065, arXiv:1208.0473, arXiv:1201.2872, arXiv:1106.3222.

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