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BIHARMONIC CURVES IN MINKOWSKI 3-SPACE. PART II JUN-ICHI INOGUCHI Received 24 Febraury 2006; Revised 9 May 2006; Accepted 21 May 2006 We give a differential geometric characterization for biharmonic curves with null princi- pal normal in Minkowski 3-space. Copyright © 2006 Hindawi Publishing Corporation. All rights reserved. 1. Introduction This is a supplement to our previous research note [3]. In [3], we gave a characterization of biharmonic curves in Minkowski 3-space. More precisely, we pointed out that every biharmonic curves with nonnull principal normal in Minkowski 3-space is a helix, whose 2 2 curvature κ and torsion τ satisfy κ = τ . In the classification of biharmonic curves in Minkowski 3-space due to Chen and Ishikawa [ 1], there exist biharmonic spacelike curves with null principal normal. In this supplement, we give a characterization of biharmonic curves with null principal normal. 2. Preliminaries Let 3 2 2 2 E1 be the Minkowski 3-space with natural Lorentz metric ·, · = −dx + dy + dz . Let γ = γ(s) be a spacelike curve parametrized by the arclength parameter; that is, γ sat- isfies γ , γ = 1. A spacelike curve γ is said to be a Frenet curve if its acceleration vector field γ satisfies the condition γ, γ = 0. Every spacelike Frenet curve admits an or- thonormal frame field along it (see [3]). Since biharmonicity for spacelike Frenet curves is studied in [3], hereafter we restrict our attention to spacelike curves with null acceler- ation vector field. Note that spacelike curves with zero acceleration vector field are lines. There are no timelike curves with null acceleration vector field. Lemma 2.1. Let γ(s) be a spacelike curve parametriz