An Extended Family of Slant Curves in S−manifolds

In this paper, we define an extended family of slant curves (i.e. θα−slant curves) in S−manifolds. We give two examples of such curves in R 2n+s (−3s), where we choose n = 1, s = 2. Finally, we study biharmonicity of these curves in S−space forms.

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