Criticality of K-contact vector fields (Q1602415)
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Criticality of K-contact vector fields (English)
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23 June 2002
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The first two sections of the present paper are preliminaries on minimal submanifold theory and contact geometry. Then the author proves that the characteristic vector field of a contact metric structure determines a contact invariant embedding into the tangent unit sphere bundle if and only if the contact form is K-contact. The minimality and harmonicity of the K-contact vector fields follow from this result.
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minimal unit vector field
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K-contact form
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Sasaki metric
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Harmonic section
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