The infimum of the energy of unit vector fields on odd-dimensional spheres

DOI10.1023/A:1022404728764MaRDI QIDQ1811005zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Vincent Borrelli, O. Gil-Medrano, Fabiano G. B. Brito

Publication date 9 June 2003

Published in Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1022404728764

zbMATH Keywords

energy of a vector fieldminimizing sequenceradial fields on spheresSasaki metric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometric aspects of harmonic maps (53C43) Variational problems concerning extremal problems in several variables; Yang-Mills functionals (58E15)

Review text

Let \(M\) be an oriented, closed, \(n\)-dimensional Riemannian manifold and \(T^1M\) be the unit tangent bundle of \(M\) considered as a closed Riemannian manifold with the Sasaki metric. The energy of a unit smooth vector field \(v\) on \(M\) is \(E(v)= {1\over 2}\int_M(n+\|\nabla\|^2)dM\), where \(dM\) is the volume form on \(M\). The authors construct a one-parameter family of unit smooth vector fields globally defined on the sphere \(\mathbb{S}^{2k +1}\) for \(k\geq 2\), with energy converging to the energy of the unit radial vector field defined on the complement of two antipodal points. The infimum of the energy of these vector fields is \(({2k+1\over 2}+ {k\over 2k-1}) \text{vol} (\mathbb{S}^{2k+1})\).

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