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Biharmonic hypersurfaces with three distinct principal curvatures in spheres

Differential Geometry 2014-12-22 v2

Abstract

We obtain a complete classification of proper biharmonic hypersurfaces with at most three distinct principal curvatures in sphere spaces with arbitrary dimension. Precisely, together with known results of Balmu\c{s}-Montaldo-Oniciuc, we prove that compact orientable proper biharmonic hypersurfaces with at most three distinct principal curvatures in sphere spaces Sn+1\mathbb S^{n+1} are either the hypersphere Sn(1/2)\mathbb S^n(1/\sqrt2) or the Clifford hypersurface Sn1(1/2)×Sn2(1/2)\mathbb S^{n_1}(1/\sqrt2)\times\mathbb S^{n_2}(1/\sqrt2) with n1+n2=nn_1+n_2=n and n1n2n_1\neq n_2. Moreover, we also show that there does not exist proper biharmonic hypersurface with at most three distinct principal curvatures in hyperbolic spaces Hn+1\mathbb H^{n+1}.

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@article{arxiv.1412.5726,
  title  = {Biharmonic hypersurfaces with three distinct principal curvatures in spheres},
  author = {Yu Fu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.5726},
  year   = {2014}
}

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14 pages, accepted by Math. Nachr. on 10/24/2014