Harmonic and minimal unit vector fields on Riemannian symmetric spaces

zbMath1045.53036MaRDI QIDQ1419650

László Verhóczki, Jürgen Berndt, Lieven Vanhecke

Publication date: 19 January 2004

Published in: Illinois Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

reflective submanifold; principal orbit; geodesic reflection; minimal and harmonic unit vector fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

57S15: Compact Lie groups of differentiable transformations

53C42: Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.)

53C40: Global submanifolds

53C20: Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching

53C35: Differential geometry of symmetric spaces

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