Biharmonic submanifolds in manifolds with bounded curvature

Abstract

We consider a complete biharmonic submanifold $\phi:(M,g)\rightarrow (N,h)$ in a Riemannian manifold with sectional curvature bounded from above by a non-negative constant $c$. Assume that the mean curvature is bounded from below by $\sqrt c$. If (i) $\int_M (|{\bf H}|^2-c)^{p}dv_g<\infty$, for some $0<p<\infty$, or (ii) the Ricci curvature of $M$ is bounded from below, then the mean curvature is $\sqrt c$. Furthermore, if $M$ is compact, then we obtain the same result without the assumption (i) or (ii).