Harmonic maps, harmonic morphisms and stability (Q2736639)

This paper surveys some of the recent work of the authors on harmonic maps and morphisms between Riemannian manifolds with compatible contact (more generally, Cauchy-Riemann) or Hermitian structures. The main results concerning the harmonic maps are the following: NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINE1. A \((\varphi, J)\)-holomorphic map from a strongly pseudo-convex CR manifold (a Sasakian manifold, in particular) to a Kähler manifold is harmonic.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINE2. The identity of a \(2n+1\) dimensional Sasakian space form with \(\varphi\)-sectional curvature \(c\leq 1\) is unstable, provided the first eigenvalue of the Laplacian on functions is \(< c(n+1)+3n-1\). NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEAs regards the harmonic morphisms, it is proved that a \((\varphi, J)\)-holomorphic, horizontally conformal map from a Sasakian manifold to a Hermitian manifold is a harmonic morphism if and only if the target manifold is semi-Kähler.