Harmonic conformal flows on manifolds of constant curvature

DOI10.2478/S11533-007-0020-6MaRDI QIDQ2464686zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Amine Fawaz

Publication date 17 December 2007

Published in Central European Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2478/s11533-007-0020-6

zbMATH Keywords

conformal flowconstant curvatureenergyisometric flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foliations (differential geometric aspects) (53C12) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Differential geometric aspects of harmonic maps (53C43)

Review text

The paper studies conformal flows on Riemannian manifolds. Let \((M,g)\) be a connected Riemannian manifold of dimension \(n+1\). If \(V\) is a smooth unit vector field on \(M\) the energy of the 1-dimensional foliation \({\mathcal L}\) defined by it is defined as \[ E({\mathcal L}) = \tfrac{1}{2} \int_M | \nabla V | \mu, \] where \(\nabla\) is the Levi-Civita connection of \(g\) and the associated volume form. The foliation \({\mathcal L}\) is harmonic if it is a critical foliation for the energy functional under variations of the foliation \({\mathcal L}\). The main result of the paper implies that a conformal flow on a manifold of constant curvature is harmonic iff it is isometric. It is a generalization of the author's result for Riemannian flows.

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