Harmonic sections of homogeneous fibre bundles.

DOI10.1016/S0926-2245(03)00021-4zbMath1058.53053OpenAlexW2041476095WikidataQ115338032 ScholiaQ115338032MaRDI QIDQ1410599

Chris M. Wood

Publication date: 14 October 2003

Published in: Differential Geometry and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0926-2245(03)00021-4

zbMATH Keywords

harmonic sectionAlmost-HermitianSuper-curvatureSuper-flatTwistor bundle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) Differential geometric aspects of harmonic maps (53C43) Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Variational problems concerning extremal problems in several variables; Yang-Mills functionals (58E15)

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