{ "id": "1201.6455", "version": "v1", "published": "2012-01-31T06:38:20.000Z", "updated": "2012-01-31T06:38:20.000Z", "title": "Biharmonic submanifolds in a Riemannian manifold with non-positive curvature", "authors": [ "Nobumitsu Nakauchi", "Hajime Urakawa" ], "categories": [ "math.DG" ], "abstract": "We show that for an isometric immersion of a complete Riemannian manifold into a Riemannian manifold with non-positive curvature, the norm of the mean curvature vector field is square integrable, then it is minimal. This is a partial affirmative answer of the B. Y. Chen's conjecture.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2012-01-31T06:38:20.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "non-positive curvature", "biharmonic submanifolds", "mean curvature vector field", "complete riemannian manifold", "chens conjecture" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2012arXiv1201.6455N" } } }