New Types of Metrics Deformations and Applications to p-Biharmonic Maps

We construct p-biharmonic non p-harmonic maps between Riemannian manifolds (M, g) and (N, h) by first making the ansatz that φ : (M, g) → (N, h) be a p-biharmonic map and then deforming the metric on N by h˜ = h − df ⊗ df to render φ p-biharmonic, where f is a smooth function on N satisfying some conditions. We construct a new example of p-biharmonic non p-harmonic map.