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Biharmonic Hypersurfaces in Projective Spaces Revisited

Jun-ichi Inoguchi(Hokkaido Univeristy)0000-0002-6584-5739
Toru Sasahara(Hachinohe Institute of Technology)0000-0003-2853-0268
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2025-10-19
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We also classify pseudo-harmonic, subelliptic biharmonic, and Levi-harmonic homogeneous Hopf hypersurfaces in complex space forms.

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We study biharmonic homogeneous real hypersurfaces in complex projective space and quaternion projective space. We provide a classification of biharmonic homogeneous real hypersurfaces in quaternion projective space. We also classify pseudo-harmonic, subelliptic biharmonic, and Levi-harmonic homogeneous Hopf hypersurfaces in complex space forms.

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Inoguchi, J., Sasahara, T. (2025). Biharmonic Hypersurfaces in Projective Spaces Revisited. International Electronic Journal of Geometry, Volume: 18 Issue: 2. https://doi.org/10.36890/iejg.1665105

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