The stress-energy tensor for biharmonic maps
Differential Geometry
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
Using Hilbert's criterion, we consider the stress-energy tensor associated to the bienergy functional. We show that it derives from a variational problem on metrics and exhibit the peculiarity of dimension four. First, we use this tensor to construct new examples of biharmonic maps, then classify maps with vanishing or parallel stress-energy tensor and Riemannian immersions whose stress-energy tensor is proportional to the metric.
Cite
@article{arxiv.math/0602021,
title = {The stress-energy tensor for biharmonic maps},
author = {E. Loubeau and S. Montaldo and C. Oniciuc},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0602021},
year = {2007}
}