Harmonic almost contact structures

DOI10.1007/s10711-006-9112-xzbMath1118.53043arXivmath/0602533OpenAlexW1966055305MaRDI QIDQ884776

E. Vergara-Diaz, Chris M. Wood

Publication date: 7 June 2007

Published in: Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0602533

zbMATH Keywords

harmonic mapalmost contact metric structurenearly cosymplecticnearly Sasakiannearly Kähler structureharmonic sectionharmonic almost complex structureharmonic unit vector fieldtrans-Sasakian

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometric aspects of harmonic maps (53C43) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10) Other complex differential geometry (53C56) Almost contact and almost symplectic manifolds (53D15)

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