Polyharmonic hypersurfaces into complex space forms

Abstract

We characterize homogeneous hypersurfaces in complex space forms which arise as critical points of a higher order energy functional. As a consequence, we obtain existence and non-existence results for $\mathbb{CP}^n$ and $\mathbb{CH}^n$, respectively. Moreover, we study the stability of biharmonic hypersurfaces and compute the normal index for a large family of solutions.