Harmonic morphisms from the Grassmannians and their non-compact duals (Q2431740)

The authors provide a unified framework for the construction of complex valued harmonic morphisms from the real, complex and quaternionic Grassmannians and their non-compact duals. First they construct explicit complex valued harmonic morphisms defined \textit{globally} on the non-compact irreducible Riemannian symmetric spaces \(\text{SO}_0(p,q)/ \text{SO}(p)\times \text{SO}(q)\) when \(p\notin\{q,q\pm1\}\) and \(\text{Sp}(p,q)/ \text{Sp}(p)\times Sp(q)\) when \(p\neq q\). Then a general duality theorem for complex valued harmonic morphisms from Riemannian symmetric spaces is proved and used to yield locally defined solutions from the compact real Grassmannians \(\text{SO}(p+q)/ \text{SO}(p)\times \text{SO}(q)\) with \(p\notin\{q,q\pm1\}\), and the quaternionic Grassmannian \(\text{Sp}(p+q)/ \text{Sp}(p)\times \text{Sp}(q)\) when \(p\neq q\). Thus, a positive answer is given to the corresponding open existence problem of complex valued harmonic morphisms in the real and quaternionic cases.