On the fundamental group of the space of harmonic 2-spheres in the n- sphere

DOI10.1007/BF02571727MaRDI QIDQ1323463zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mikio Furuta, Martin A. Guest, Motoko Kotani, Yoshihiro Ohnita

Publication date 28 February 1995

Published in Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9303036, https://eudml.org/doc/174625

zbMATH Keywords

harmonic mapstwistor space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Manifolds of mappings (58D15) Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20)

Abstract: We compute the fundamental group of the "moduli space" of classical solutions of the two dimensional Euclidean $S^n$-model.

Review text

The authors consider the space \(\text{Harm}(S^ 2, S^ n)\) of harmonic maps \(\phi: S^ 2 \to S^ n\). Using the description of such maps in terms of holomorphic data, namely Calabi's description of harmonic maps in terms of horizontal holomorphic maps into the appropriate twistor space, and applying the method of group actions and Morse-theoretic deformations of harmonic maps, they compute the fundamental group of the space of harmonic maps, obtaining the following result for the subspace \(\text{Harm}_ d (S^ 2,S^ n)\) of maps of degree \(d\): \[ \pi_ 1(\text{Harm}_ d(S^ 2, S^ n)) = \begin{cases} 0 & \text{if \(n \geq 4\), \(d \neq 2\)}\\ \mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z} & \text{if \(n \geq 4\), \(d = 2\)}\\ \mathbb{Z}/2d\mathbb{Z} & \text{if \(n = 3\)} \end{cases}. \]

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