scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2205366

Publication date 15 September 2005

complete lift metric harmonic map harmonic morphism Kähler manifold Lorentzian manifold

Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Differential geometric aspects of harmonic maps (53C43) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) General relativity (83C99)

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A mapping \(\varphi\) between two semi-Riemannian manifolds is harmonic if the tension field \(\tau(\varphi)\), i.e., the trace of its second fundamental form, vanishes and a vector field \(X\) on a semi-Riemannian manifold \(M\) is called harmonic-Killing (h-K) if the associated local flow \(\varphi_t\) consists of harmonic diffeomorphisms. A more general notion is that of 1-harmonic Killing field (1-h-K), defined by the condition \(d\tau(\varphi_t)/dt| _{t=0}=0\). Equivalent conditions are: (i) \(X\) is a Jacobi field along the identity, (ii) \(\Delta X=\text{Ric}(X,.)\), where \(\Delta\) is the Laplacian and \(\text{Ric}\) the Ricci tensor, or (iii) \(X:(M,g)\to (T(M),g^C)\) is an harmonic section for the complete lift metric \(g^C\) of the metric tensor \(g\) of \(M\) to the tangent bundle \(T(M)\), a notion introduced by Yano and Ishihara. Section 1 of this dissertation is concerned with harmonic maps and the complete lift of the metric \(g\) to the tangent bundle. In section 2, a geometric interpretation and several characterizations of (1-h-K) vector fields are given, relations between them and several other classes of vector fields are studied, namely Killing-, affine-, projective-, conformal-Killing-, and harmonic vector fields, i.e., fields such that the associated 1-form is harmonic. Conditions are established for linear endomorphisms \(T\) of \(T(M)\) to preserve (1-h-K)~vector fields. A map between two Riemannian manifolds is an harmonic morphism if harmonic functions on the target manifold are pulled back to harmonic functions. \(\mu\)-harmonic vector fields are defined as vector fields such that the associated flow consists of harmonic morphism. It is shown that they form a Lie algebra. In an anlogous way, considering pluri-harmonic and \(\alpha\)-pluri-harmonic maps, in section 4, pluri-harmonic and \(\alpha\)-pluri-harmonic vector fields are considered. An intermediate section 3 studies (h-K) vector fields on Kähler manifolds. The final section 5 is devoted to a discussion of (1-h-K) fields on Lorentzian manifolds.

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