The object of the present paper was to study biharmonic maps on f-Kenmotsu manifolds and with Schouten–van Kampen connection. With help this connection, our results provided important insights related harmonic maps.

Abstract. We give a new proof of regularity of biharmonic maps from four-dimensional domains into spheres, showing first that the biharmonic map system is equivalent to a set of bilinear identities in divergence form. The method of reverse Hölder inequalities is used next to prove continuity of solutions and higher integrability of their second order derivatives. As a byproduct, we also prove t...

We prove an apriori estimate in Morrey spaces for both intrinsic and extrinsic biharmonic maps into spheres. As applications, we prove an energy quantization theorem for biharmonic maps from 4-manifolds into spheres and a partial regularity for stationary intrinsic biharmonic maps into spheres. x

In this paper, we first establish regularity of the heat flow of biharmonic maps into the unit sphere S ⊂ R under a smallness condition of renormalized total energy. For the class of such solutions to the heat flow of biharmonic maps, we prove the properties of uniqueness, convexity of hessian energy, and unique limit at t = ∞. We establish both regularity and uniqueness for Serrin’s (p, q)-sol...

We consider in dimension four weakly convergent sequences of approximate biharmonic maps to a Riemannian manifold with bi-tension fields bounded in L for p > 4 3 . We prove an energy identity that accounts for the loss of hessian energies by the sum of hessian energies over finitely many nontrivial biharmonic maps on R. As a corollary, we obtain an energy identity for the heat flow of biharmoni...

In this paper, we study biharmonic maps into Sol and Nil spaces, two model spaces of Thurston's 3-dimensional geometries. We characterize non-geodesic biharmonic curves in Sol space and prove that there exists no non-geodesic biharmonic helix in Sol space. We also show that a linear map from a Eu-clidean space into Sol or Nil space is biharmonic if and only if it is a harmonic map, and give a c...

This paper studies conformal biharmonic immersions. We first study the transformations of Jacobi operator and the bitension field under conformal change of metrics. We then obtain an invariant equation for a conformal biharmonic immersion of a surface into Euclidean 3-space. As applications, we construct a 2-parameter family of non-minimal conformal biharmonic immersions of cylinder into R and ...