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PII.S0161171201006731 BIHARMONICMAPSONV-MANIFOLDS YUAN-JEN CHIANG andHONGAN SUN (Received 16February 2001) Abstract. We generalize biharmonic maps between Riemannian manifolds into the case of the domain being V-manifolds. We obtain the ?rst and second variations of bihar- monic maps on V-manifolds. Since a biharmonic map from a compact V-manifold into aRiemannian manifold of nonpositive curvature is harmonic, we construct abiharmonic non-harmonic mapintoasphere.Wealsoshowthatundercertainconditionthebiharmonic property of f implies the harmonic property of f.We ?nally discuss the composition of biharmonic maps onV-manifolds. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classi?cation. 58E20, 35K05. 1. Introduction. Following Eells, Sampson, and Lemaire’s tentative ideas [7, 8, 9], Jiang?rstdiscussedbiharmonic(or2-harmonic)mapsbetweenRiemannianmanifolds inhistwoarticles[10,11]inChinain1986,whichgivestheconditionsforbiharmonic maps. A biharmonic map f :M →N between Riemannian manifolds is the smooth criticalpointofthebi-energy functional E2(f)=
 d+d? f ?1=
      2 2 τ(f) ?1, (1.1) M M where?1isthevolumeformonM,thetension?eldτ(f)=(D?df)(ei,ei)(=(D?eidf)(ei)), {e }isthelocalframeofapointpinM.Biharmonic mapsaretheextensions ofhar- i monicmaps,andtheirstudyprovidesasourceinpartialdi?erentialequations,di?er- ential geometry, and analysis. After Jiang, Chiang, and Sun have studied biharmonic mapsintwopapers[6,14].Chiangalsostudiedharmonicmapsandbiharmonicmaps oftwo di?erent kinds ofsingular spaces: V-manifolds [3, 4]and spaces with conical singularities (withAndreaRatto[5]). In this paper, we generalize the notion of a biharmonic map to the case that the domain of f is a V-manifold due to Satake in [1, 12, 13]. A (C∞) V-manifold (M,?) consists ofaHausdor? space M with anatlas?ofV-charts satisfying the following conditions: (i) If{U?,G,π}and{U?,G,π}aretwoV-chartsin?overU,U,respectively,inM withU?U,thenthereexistsaninjection λ:{U,G,π}→{U,G,π}. (ii) Thes