Harmonicity and minimality of oriented distributions

DOI10.1007/BF02803502zbMath1073.58007OpenAlexW1976438170MaRDI QIDQ1766474

José Carmelo González-Dávila, Lieven Vanhecke, Olga Gil-Medrano

Publication date: 7 March 2005

Published in: Israel Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02803502

zbMATH Keywords

distributionharmonic mapHopf fibrationminimal immersionGrassmann bundle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20) Vector distributions (subbundles of the tangent bundles) (58A30)

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