Harmonic almost contact structures via the intrinsic torsion

DOI10.1007/S11856-011-0007-7zbMATH Open1219.53075arXiv0810.1380OpenAlexW2063703649MaRDI QIDQ532582FDOQ532582

Authors: F. Martín Cabrera, J. C. González-Dávila 

Publication date: 5 May 2011

Published in: Israel Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We go further on the study of harmonicity for almost contact metric structures already initiated by Vergara-Diaz and Wood. By using the intrinsic torsion, we characterise harmonic almost contact metric structures in several equivalent ways and show conditions relating harmonicity and classes of almost contact metric structures. Additionally, we study the harmonicity of such structures as a map into the quotient bundle of the oriented orthonormal frames by the action of the structural group U(n)x1. Finally, by using a Bochner type formula proved by Bor and Hernandez Lamoneda, we display some examples which give the absolute minimum for the energy.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.1380

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zbMATH Keywords

intrinsic torsionalmost contact metric structuresharmonicitystructural group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Differential geometric aspects of harmonic maps (53C43) Almost contact and almost symplectic manifolds (53D15)

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