BIHARMONIC LEGENDRE CURVES IN SASAKIAN SPACE FORMS

• Fetcu, Dorel (DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS "GH. ASACHI" TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY)
• Published : 2008.03.31

Abstract

Biharmonic Legendre curves in a Sasakian space form are studied. A non-existence result in a 7-dimensional 3-Sasakian manifold is obtained. Explicit formulas for some biharmonic Legendre curves in the 7-sphere are given.

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