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We explore novel properties of the biharmonic heat kernel on Euclidean space and derive an entropy type quantity for the extrinsic biharmonic map heat flow which exhibits monotonicity behaviors for $n\leq 4$.
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We study biharmonic maps between Riemannian manifolds with finite energy and finite bi-energy. We show that if the domain is complete and the target of non-positive curvature, then such a map is harmonic. We then give applications to…
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