Stability of F-biharmonic maps

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Department of Mathematics and Computer Science‎, ‎Amirkabir University of Technology‎, ‎Tehran‎, ‎Iran.

Abstract

This paper studies some properties of F-biharmonic maps between Riemannian manifolds. By considering the first variation formula of the F-bienergy functional, F-biharmonicity of conformal maps are investigated. Moreover, the second variation formula for F-biharmonic maps is obtained. As an application, instability and nonexistence theorems for F-biharmonic maps are given.

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