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Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences Volume 2009, Article ID 104274, 14 pages doi:10.1155/2009/104274 Research Article Biwave Maps into Manifolds Yuan-Jen Chiang Department of Mathematics, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA 22401, USA Correspondence should be addressed to Yuan-Jen Chiang, ychiang@ Received 8 January 2009; Accepted 30 March 2009 Recommended by Jie Xiao We generalize wave maps to biwave maps. We prove that the composition of a biwave map and a totally geodesic map is a biwave map. We give examples of biwave nonwave maps. We show that if f is a biwave map into a Riemannian manifold under certain circumstance, then f is a wave map. We verify that if f is a stable biwave map into a Riemannian manifold with positive constant sectional curvature satisfying the conservation law, then f is a wave map. We finally obtain a theorem involving an unstable biwave map. Copyright q 2009 Yuan-Jen Chiang. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 1. Introduction Harmonic maps between Riemannian manifolds were first introduced and established by Eells and Sampson 1 in 1964. Afterwards, there were two reports on harmonic maps by Eells and Lemaire 2, 3 in 1978 and 1988. Biharmonic maps, which generalized harmonic maps, were first studied by Jiang 4, 5 in 1986. In this decade, there has been progress in biharmonic maps made by Caddeo et al. 6, 7, Loubeau and Oniciuc 8, Montaldo and Oniciuc 9, Chiang and Wolak 10, Chiang and Sun 11, 12, Chang et al. 13, Wang 14, 15, and so forth. Wave maps are harmonic maps on Minkowski spaces, a