Harmonic almost contact structures

DOI10.1007/S10711-006-9112-XzbMATH Open1118.53043arXivmath/0602533OpenAlexW1966055305MaRDI QIDQ884776FDOQ884776

E. Vergara-Diaz, C. M. Wood

Publication date: 7 June 2007

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

Abstract: An almost contact metric structure is parametrized by a section of an associated homogeneous fibre bundle, and conditions for this to be a harmonic section, and a harmonic map, are studied. These involve the characteristic vector field, and the almost complex structure in the contact subbundle. Several examples are given where the harmonic section equations reduce to those for the characteristic field to be a harmonic section of the unit tangent bundle. These include trans-Sasakian structures, and certain nearly cosymplectic structures. On the other hand, we obtain examples where the characteristic field is harmonic but the almost contact structure is not. Many of our examples are obtained by considering hypersurfaces of almost Hermitian manifolds, with the induced almost contact structure, and comparing the harmonic section equations for both structures.

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

zbMATH Keywords

harmonic mapalmost contact metric structurenearly cosymplecticnearly Sasakian[https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/w/index.php?title=+Special%3ASearch&search=nearly+K%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BDhler+structure&go=Go nearly K��hler structure]harmonic sectionharmonic almost complex structureharmonic unit vector fieldtrans-Sasakian

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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