Unit vector fields on antipodally punctured spheres: big index, big volume

DOI10.24033/bsmf.2551zbMath1158.53023MaRDI QIDQ3544883

Pablo M. Chacón, David L. Johnson, Fabiano Gustavo Braga Brito

Publication date: 8 December 2008

Published in: Bulletin de la Société mathématique de France (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://smf4.emath.fr/en/Publications/Bulletin/136/html/smf_bull_136_147-157.html

zbMATH Keywords

volume; singularities; index; Unit vector fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

57R25: Vector fields, frame fields in differential topology

53C20: Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching

53C12: Foliations (differential geometric aspects)

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