On the biharmonic hypersurfaces with three distinct principal curvatures in space forms

Ştefan Andronic, Yu Fu, Cezar Oniciuc

Published 2023-01-23Version 1

In [16] there was proved that any biharmonic hypersurface with at most three distinct principal curvatures in space forms has constant mean curvature. At the very last step of the proof, the argument relied on the fact that the resultant of two polynomials is a non-zero polynomial. In this paper we point out that, in fact, there is a case, and only one, when this resultant is the zero polynomial and therefore the original proof is not fully complete. Further, we prove that in this special case we still obtain that the hypersurface has constant mean curvature.