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Harmonic Vector Fields
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Harmonic Vector Fields

by Sorin Dragomir, Domenico Perrone
November 2011
Intermediate to advanced
528 pages
10h 30m
English
Elsevier
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3.3. Instability of Hopf Vector Fields

By Corollary 3.16 the Hopf vector fields on S 3 are absolute minima for B9780124158269000031/si535.gif is missing hence stable critical points of the energy functional. This is a rather surprising bias from the theory of harmonic maps where it is known that
Theorem 3.17 Y.L. Xin, [321]
Let N be Riemannian manifold. Then any nonconstant harmonic map B9780124158269000031/si537.gif is missingis unstable provided that n ≥ 3.
In particular the Hopf vector fields ξ on S 3 are unstable as harmonic maps . What about the stability of Hopf vector fields on a sphere S 2 m +1 (with m > 1)? To answer ...
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