A totally geodesic property of Hopf vector fields

DOI10.1023/B:AMHU.0000003895.90745.38MaRDI QIDQ2494417zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. Yampolsky

Publication date 27 June 2006

Published in Acta Mathematica Hungarica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0503594

zbMATH Keywords

Sasaki metrictotally geodesic submanifoldsvector fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Global submanifolds (53C40) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42)

Abstract: We prove that the Hopf vector field is a unique one among geodesic covariantly normal unit vector fields on spheres such that the submanifold generated by the field is totally geodesic in the unit tangent bundle with Sasaki metric. As application, we give a new proof of stability (instability) of the Hopf vector field with respect to volume variation using standard approach from the theory of submanifolds and find exact boundaries for the sectional curvature of the Hopf vector field.

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