Biharmonic maps on kenmotsu manifolds

Year 2016, Volume: 4 Issue: 3, 129 - 139, 30.09.2016

Abdelkader Zagane Seddik Ouakkas

https://izlik.org/JA97UA85GL

Abstract

In this paper we study biharmonic maps on Kenmotsu manifolds.
An example for biharmonic map of a three-Kenmotsu manifold is constructed for
illustration.

Keywords

Biharmonic map , Kenmotsu manifold

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