Jacobi fields along harmonic 2-spheres in $S^3$ and $S^4$ are not all integrable
Abstract
In a previous paper, we showed that any Jacobi field along a harmonic map from the 2-sphere to the complex projective plane is integrable (i.e., is tangent to a smooth variation through harmonic maps). In this paper, in contrast, we show that there are (non-full) harmonic maps from the 2-sphere to the 3-sphere and 4-sphere which have non-integrable Jacobi fields. This is particularly surprising in the case of the 3-sphere where the space of harmonic maps of any degree is a smooth manifold, each map having image in a totally geodesic 2-sphere.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- September 2007
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.0709.1417
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0709.1417
- Bibcode:
- 2007arXiv0709.1417L
- Keywords:
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- Mathematics - Differential Geometry;
- 58E20;
- 53C43
- E-Print:
- 43 pages. Some typos corrected