Volume no :5, Issue no: 1, May 2010

BIHARMONIC CURVES IN FOUR-DIMENSIONAL DAMEK-RICCI SPACES

Author's: S. Degla and L. Todjihounde
Pages: [19] - [27]
Received Date: March 1, 2010
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Abstract

Four-dimensional Damek-Ricci spaces are one-dimensional extensions of three-dimensional Heisenberg groups. In this note, we prove that there is no non-geodesic biharmonic curve in a four-dimensional Damek-Ricci space although such curves exist in three-dimensional Heisenberg groups.

Keywords

harmonic and biharmonic maps, Damek-Ricci spaces.