A critical radius for unit Hopf vector fields on spheres

DOI10.1007/s00208-005-0692-9zbMath1115.53025MaRDI QIDQ2491103

Vincent Borrelli, Olga Gil-Medrano

Publication date: 26 May 2006

Published in: Mathematische Annalen (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00208-005-0692-9

zbMATH Keywords

unit Hopf vector fields on spheres

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53C20: Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching

53C43: Differential geometric aspects of harmonic maps

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