Pseudoharmonic maps and vector fields on CR manifolds
Sorin DRAGOMIR and Yoshinobu KAMISHIMA
Source: J. Math. Soc. Japan Volume 62, Number 1
(2010), 269-303.
Abstract
Building on the work by J. Jost and C.-J. Xu [32], and E. Barletta et al. [3], we study smooth pseudoharmonic maps from a compact strictly pseudoconvex CR manifold and their generalizations e.g. pseudoharmonic unit tangent vector fields.
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Keywords: Graham-Lee connection; Bergman harmonic map; pseudoharmonic map; total bending; pseudoharmonic vector field
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