Instability of the geodesic flow for the energy functional (Q627406)
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Instability of the geodesic flow for the energy functional (English)
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1 March 2011
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The main result proved in the paper asserts that the geodesic flow of the unit tangent bundle of the unit sphere \(S^{n}(r)\), gives an unstable map \(T_{1}S^{n}(r)\rightarrow T_{1}T_{1}S^{n}(r)\) for \(n\geq 7\) and \(r>0\), where the metrics on the unit tangent bundles are the Sasaki ones. This gives a positive answer to a problem raised by \textit{E. Boeckx, J. C. González-Dávila} and \textit{L. Vanhecke} in [Commentat. Math. Univ. Carol. 43, No.~2, 201--213 (2002; Zbl 1090.53035)]. The author proves also that, for the unit sphere \((r=1)\), the result is invariant under a four-parameter deformation of the Sasaki metric on \(T_{1}T_{1}S^{n}(r)\).
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geodesic flow
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canonical sphere
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stability
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energy functional
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harmonic maps
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natural Riemannian metrics
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