Mehmet Akif Akyol;Ye-Lin Ou;Mehmet Akif Akyol;Ye-Lin Ou;
annali di matematica pura ed applicata (1923 -)2018Vol. 198pp. 559-570
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akyol2018annalibiharmonic
Abstract
In this paper, we study biharmonic Riemannian submersions. We first derive bitension field of a general Riemannian submersion, and we then use it to obtain biharmonic equations for Riemannian submersions with one-dimensional fibers and Riemannian submersions with basic mean curvature vector fields of fibers. These are used to construct examples of proper biharmonic Riemannian submersions with one-dimensional fibers and to characterize warped products whose projections onto the first factor are biharmonic Riemannian submersions.