Biharmonic Submanifolds with Parallel Normalized Mean Curvature Vector Field in Pseudo-Riemannian Space Forms

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate biharmonic submanifolds with parallel normalized mean curvature vector field in pseudo-Riemannian space forms and classify completely such pseudo-umbilical submanifolds. Also, we prove that such submanifolds have parallel mean curvature vector field under the assumption that they have diagonalizable shape operator with at most two distinct principal curvatures in the direction of the mean curvature vector field, and apply it to obtain a partial classification result.