Isometric actions and harmonic morphisms.
Isometric actions and harmonic morphisms.
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DOI:
10.1307/mmj/1030132589
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发表时间:
2000
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0.9
通讯作者:
R. Pantilie
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作者:
R. Pantilie
It is well known that a Riemannian foliation with minimal leaves has the property that it produces harmonic morphisms, that is, it leaves are locally fibers of submersive harmonic morphisms. This is an immediate consequence of the fact that Riemannian submersions with minimal fibers are harmonic morphisms. More generally, a Riemannian foliation (of codimension not equal to 2) produces harmonic morphisms if and only if the vector field determined by the mean curvatures of the leaves is locally a gradient vector field. This is a consequence of the fundamental equation of Baird and Eells [1] (see Proposition 1.2 in the next section). Although this condition is quite simple, few examples of such Riemannian foliations were known; our work will provide many new ones. For a 1-dimensional Riemannian foliation, the condition just stated is equivalent to the fact that the foliation is locally generated by Killing fields (a result due to Bryant [6]), but this is not true for foliations of dimension greater than 1. In this paper we show that, for a foliation locally generated by Killing fields, the condition depends only on the integrability tensor of the horizontal distribution and the induced local action. Thus we obtain a useful criterion for a foliation locally generated by Killing fields to produce harmonic morphisms. This is done in Section 1 (Theorem1.13). In Section 2 we derive a few consequences, thus obtaining the following classes of Riemannian foliations (of codimension 6= 2) that produce harmonic morphisms: