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The energy of Hopf vector fields (English)
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17 October 2000
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The three-dimensional Hopf vector field is shown to be a stable harmonic section of the unit tangent bundle. In contrast, higher-dimensional Hopf vector fields are unstable harmonic sections; there is a natural variation through smooth unit vector fields which is locally energy-decreasing, and whose asymptotic limit is a singular vector field of finite energy. This energy is explicitly calculated, and conjectured to be the infimum of the energy functional over all smooth unit vector fields.
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Hopf vector field
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harmonic section
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unit tangent bundle
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energy functional
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