On the intrinsic geometry of a unit vector field
We study the geometrical properties of a unit vector field on a Riemannian 2-manifold, considering the field as a local imbedding of the manifold into its tangent sphere bundle with the Sasaki metric. For the case of constant curvature , we give a description of the totally geodesic unit vector fields for and and prove a non-existence result for . We also found a family of vector fields on the hyperbolic 2-plane of curvature which generate foliations on with leaves of constant intrinsic...