Harmonic G-structures

DOI10.1017/S0305004108001709MaRDI QIDQ3616242zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors F. Martín Cabrera, J. C. González-Dávila

Publication date 24 March 2009

Published in Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0706.0116

zbMATH Keywords

energy functionalharmonic \(G\)-structuresharmonic almost Hermitian manifoldsvariational formulas

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(G)-structures (53C10) Differential geometric aspects of harmonic maps (53C43) Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20)

Abstract: For closed and connected subgroups G of SO(n), we study the energy functional on the space of G-structures of a (compact) Riemannian manifold M, where G-structures are considered as sections of the quotient bundle O(M)/G. Then, we deduce the corresponding first and second variation formulae and the characterising conditions for critical points by means of tools closely related with the study of G-structures. In this direction, we show the role in the energy functional played by the intrinsic torsion of the G-structure. Moreover, we analyse the particular case G=U(n) for even-dimensional manifolds. This leads to the study of harmonic almost Hermitian manifolds and harmonic maps from M into O(M)/U(n).

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