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BIHARMONICCURVESINMINKOWSKI3-SPACE.PARTII JUN-ICHIINOGUCHI Received24Febraury2006;Revised9May2006;Accepted21May2006 Wegiveadi?erentialgeometriccharacterization forbiharmoniccurveswithnullprinci- palnormalinMinkowski3-space. Copyright?2006HindawiPublishingCorporation.Allrightsreserved. 1.Introduction Thisisasupplementtoourpreviousresearchnote[3].In[3],wegaveacharacterization ofbiharmonic curves inMinkowski3-space. Moreprecisely,wepointed outthatevery biharmoniccurveswithnonnullprincipalnormalinMinkowski3-spaceisahelix,whose curvature κand torsion τ satisfy κ2=τ2.Inthe classi?cation ofbiharmonic curves in Minkowski3-spaceduetoChenandIshikawa[1],thereexistbiharmonicspacelikecurves withnullprincipalnormal.Inthissupplement,wegiveacharacterization ofbiharmonic curveswithnullprincipalnormal. 2.Preliminaries LetE31betheMinkowski3-spacewithnaturalLorentzmetric ·,·=?dx2+dy2+dz2. Letγ=γ(s)beaspacelikecurveparametrized bythearclengthparameter; thatis,γsat- is?esγ  ,γ=1.AspacelikecurveγissaidtobeaFrenetcurveifitsaccelerationvector ?eldγ satis?es thecondition γ   ,γ=0.EveryspacelikeFrenetcurveadmits anor- thonormalframe?eldalongit(see[3]).Sincebiharmonicity forspacelikeFrenetcurves isstudiedin[3],hereafterwerestrictourattentiontospacelikecurveswithnullacceler- ationvector?eld.Notethatspacelikecurveswithzeroacceleration vector?eldarelines. Therearenotimelikecurveswithnullaccelerationvector?eld. Lemma 2.1. Letγ(s)beaspacelike curve parametrized byarclength suchthat γ  ,γ = 0.Thenthereexists amatrix-valued function F(s)=(f (s),f (s),f (s)),which satis?es the 1 2 3 followingordinarydi?erentialequation: HindawiPublishingCorporation InternationalJournalofMathematicsandMathematicalSciences Volume2006,ArticleID92349,Pages1–4 DOI10.1155/IJMMS/2006/92349  2 BiharmoniccurvesinMinkowski3-space.PartII ? ? 0 0 k 0 ?1 ? ? ?γF=F?1 0 ?, f1=γ  . (2.1) 0 ?k Here?istheLevi-Civita connectionofE31. Conversely,letF(