On the volume of unit vector fields on spaces of constant sectional curvature

DOI10.1007/s00014-004-0802-4zbMath1057.53022MaRDI QIDQ1881552

Pablo M. Chacón, Antonio M. Naveira, Fabiano Gustavo Braga Brito

Publication date: 5 October 2004

Published in: Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00014-004-0802-4

zbMATH Keywords

Sasaki metric; space form; volume functional; unit vector fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53C25: Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.)

53C20: Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching

58E35: Variational inequalities (global problems) in infinite-dimensional spaces

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