Construction of $r$-harmonic submanifolds

Abstract

We provide a construction method for biharmonic submanifolds in cohomogeneity one manifolds. In particular, we give new examples of biharmonic submanifolds and study the normal index of these submanifolds. We use this strategy to construct metrics on the sphere admitting biharmonic non-minimal hypersurfaces with three distinct principal curvatures. Finally, we perform a similar study of $r$-harmonic submanifolds of cohomogeneity one manifolds.

22 pages, no figures. v2: generalized construction method, addressed corrections, modified exposition