Harmonic and minimal radial vector fields

DOI10.1023/A:1010687231629MaRDI QIDQ5948308zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Eric Boeckx, Lieven Vanhecke

Publication date 5 November 2001

Published in Acta Mathematica Hungarica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1010687231629

zbMATH Keywords

harmonic and minimal unit vector fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25)

Review text

We present new examples of harmonic and minimal unit vector fields. These are radial vector fields on tubular neighbourhoods about points and submanifolds in two-point homogeneous spaces and harmonic manifolds, and about characteristic curves in Sasakian space forms.

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