Area-minimizing vector fields on round 2-spheres

DOI10.1515/CRELLE.2010.020zbMath1187.53029MaRDI QIDQ3553931

Olga Gil-Medrano, Vincent Borrelli

Publication date: 22 April 2010

Published in: Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik (Crelles Journal) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/crelle.2010.020

zbMATH Keywords

natural metric; unit vector fields; Pontryagin cycle; Pontryagin fields; tangent bundle \(TS^{n}\)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53C42: Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.)

53C15: General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.)

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