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Stable proper biharmonic maps in Euclidean spheres

Differential Geometry 2025-07-10 v1 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We construct an explicit family of stable proper weak biharmonic maps from the unit ball BmB^m, m5m\geq 5, to Euclidean spheres. To the best of the authors knowledge this is the first example of a stable proper weak biharmonic map from at compact domain. To achieve our result we first establish the second variation formula of the bienergy for maps from the unit ball into a Euclidean sphere. Employing this result, we examine the stability of the proper weak biharmonic maps q:BmSmq:B^m\to\mathbb{S}^{m^{\ell}}, m,Nm,\ell\in\mathbb{N} with m\ell\leq m, which we recently constructed in \cite{BS25} and thus deduce the existence of an explicit family of stable proper biharmonic maps to Euclidean spheres.

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@article{arxiv.2507.06708,
  title  = {Stable proper biharmonic maps in Euclidean spheres},
  author = {Volker Branding and Anna Siffert},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.06708},
  year   = {2025}
}
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