On the critical points of the energy functional on vector fields of a Riemannian manifold

DOI10.1007/S10455-018-9627-ZMaRDI QIDQ670320zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Giovanni S. Nunes, Jaime Ripoll

Publication date 18 March 2019

Published in Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.07066

zbMATH Keywords

critical pointenergy functionalisometry groupG-invariant vector fieldLie subgroup

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Differential geometric aspects of harmonic maps (53C43)

Abstract: Given a compact Lie subgroup $G$ of the isometry group of a compact Riemannian manifold $M$ with a Riemannian connection $abla,$ it is introduced a $G-$symmetrization process of a vector field of $M$ and it is proved that the critical points of the energy functional [ F(X):=frac{int_{M}leftVert abla X ightVert ^{2}dM}{int_{M}leftVert X ightVert ^{2}dM}% ] on the space of $G-$invariant vector fields are critical points of $F$ on the space of all vector fields of $M,$ and that this inclusion may be strict in general. One proves that the infimum of $F$ on $mathbb{S}^3$ is not assumed by a $mathbb{S}^3-$invariant vector field. It is proved that the infimum of $F$ on a sphere $mathbb{S}^n,$ $ngeq2,$ of radius $1/k,$ is $k^2,$ and is assumed by a vector field invariant by the isotropy subgroup of the isometry group of $mathbb{S}^n$ at any given point of $mathbbS{\mathrm{\%}}^n.$ It is proved that if $G$ is a compact Lie subgroup of the isometry group of a compact rank $1$ symmetric space $M$ which leaves pointwise fixed a totally geodesic submanifold of dimension bigger than or equal to $1$ then all the critical points of $F$ are assumed by a $G-$invariant vector field. Finally, it is obtained a characterization of the spheres by proving that on a certain class of Riemannian compact manifolds $M$ that contains rotationally symmetric manifolds and rank $1$ symmetric spaces$,$ with positive Ricci curvature $operatorname\ast Ricolimit{s}_M$, $F$ has the lower bound $operatorname\ast Ricolimit{s}_M/left(n-1ight)$ among the $G-$ invariant vector fields, where $G$ is the isotropy subgroup of the isometry group of $M$ at a point of $M,$ and that his lower bound is attained if and only if $M$ is a sphere of radius $1/sqrtoperatorname\ast Ricolimit{s}_M.$

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