Authors: J C GonzálezDávila F Martín Cabrera M Salvai
Publish Date: 2008/03/14
Volume: 261, Issue: 2, Pages: 409-430
Abstract
We consider the energy functional on the space of sections of a sphere bundle over a Riemannian manifold Mlangle cdot cdot rangle equipped with the Sasaki metric and discuss the characterising condition for critical points Furthermore we provide a useful method for computing the tension field in some particular situations Such a method is shown to be adequate for many tensor fields defined on manifolds M equipped with a Gstructure compatible with langle cdot cdot rangle This leads to the construction of several new examples of differential forms which are harmonic sections or determine a harmonic map from Mlangle cdot cdot rangle into its sphere bundle
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