On the second variation of the identity map of a product manifold

DOI10.2748/TMJ/1178224608MaRDI QIDQ1587378zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ali Fardoun, Andrea Ratto

Publication date 16 October 2001

Published in Tôhoku Mathematical Journal. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2748/tmj/1178224608

zbMATH Keywords

harmonic mapsidentity mapindexJacobi operatornullity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20) Variational principles in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E30)

Review text

In Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 47, 229-236 (1975; Zbl 0303.58008) \textit{R. T. Smith} calculated the index and the nullity of the identity map between Euclidean spheres. The main result here is to compute the index and the nullity of the identity map of \(S^m\times S^n\) and also \(S^n\times T^m\). As a consequence, the authors give an example of a Jacobi field along the identity map of \(S^1\times S^6\) whose flow does not consist of harmonic maps.

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