The energy of Hopf vector fields

DOI10.1007/s002290050005zbMath0946.53032MaRDI QIDQ1964704

Chris M. Wood

Publication date: 17 October 2000

Published in: Manuscripta Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s002290050005

zbMATH Keywords

energy functional; Hopf vector field; unit tangent bundle; harmonic section

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53C43: Differential geometric aspects of harmonic maps

58E20: Harmonic maps, etc.

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