Both bi-harmonic maps and f-harmonic maps have some nice physical motivation and applications.Motivated largely by f-tension field not involving Riemannian curvature tensor, we attempt to formalize some large objects ...Both bi-harmonic maps and f-harmonic maps have some nice physical motivation and applications.Motivated largely by f-tension field not involving Riemannian curvature tensor, we attempt to formalize some large objects so as to broaden the notions of f-tension field and bi-tension field. We introduce a very large generalization of harmonic maps called f-bi-harmonic maps as the critical points of f-bi-energy functional, and then derive the Euler-Lagrange equation of f-bi-energy functional given by the vanishing of f-bi-tension field.Subsequently, we study some properties of f-bi-harmonic maps between the same dimensional manifolds and give a non-trivial example. Furthermore, we also study the basic properties of f-bi-harmonic maps on a warped product manifold so that we could find some interesting and complicated examples.展开更多
基金supported by the Science and Technology Research Project of Guangxi Universities(Grant No.2015ZD038)the Key Scientific Research Project of Guangxi University for Nationalities(Grant No.2012MDZD033)
文摘Both bi-harmonic maps and f-harmonic maps have some nice physical motivation and applications.Motivated largely by f-tension field not involving Riemannian curvature tensor, we attempt to formalize some large objects so as to broaden the notions of f-tension field and bi-tension field. We introduce a very large generalization of harmonic maps called f-bi-harmonic maps as the critical points of f-bi-energy functional, and then derive the Euler-Lagrange equation of f-bi-energy functional given by the vanishing of f-bi-tension field.Subsequently, we study some properties of f-bi-harmonic maps between the same dimensional manifolds and give a non-trivial example. Furthermore, we also study the basic properties of f-bi-harmonic maps on a warped product manifold so that we could find some interesting and complicated examples.