On the volume of unit vector fields on spaces of constant sectional curvature

DOI10.1007/s00014-004-0802-4zbMath1057.53022OpenAlexW2057420297MaRDI QIDQ1881552

Pablo M. Chacón, Antonio M. Naveira, Fabiano Gustavo Braga Brito

Publication date: 5 October 2004

Published in: Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00014-004-0802-4

zbMATH Keywords

Sasaki metricspace formvolume functionalunit vector fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Variational inequalities (global problems) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E35)

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