We define, on smooth manifolds, the notions of almost twistorial structure and twistorial map, thus providing a unified framework for all known examples of twistor spaces. The condition of being a harmonic morphism naturally appears among the geometric properties of submersive twistorial maps between low-dimensional Weyl spaces endowed with a nonintegrable almost twistorial structure due to Eells and Salamon. This leads to the twistorial characterisation of harmonic morphisms between Weyl spaces...

Let (M = G/H;g)denote a four-dimensional pseudo-Riemannian generalized symmetric space and g = m + h the corresponding decomposition of the Lie algebra g of G. We completely determine the harmonicity properties of vector fields belonging to m. In some cases, all these vector fields are critical points for the energy functional restricted to vector fields. Vector fields defining harmonic maps are also classified, and the energy of these vector fields is explicitly calculated.

We introduce the notions of h-conformal anti-invariant submersions and h-conformal Lagrangian submersions from almost quaternionic Hermitian manifolds onto Riemannian manifolds as a generalization of Riemannian submersions, horizontally conformal submersions, anti-invariant submersions, h-anti-invariant submersions, h-Lagrangian submersion, conformal anti-invariant submersions. We investigate their properties: the integrability of distributions, the geometry of foliations, the conditions for such...

In the space ${\Lambda }^p$ of polynomial p-forms in ℝⁿ we introduce some special inner product. Let $H^p$ be the space of polynomial p-forms which are both closed and co-closed. We prove in a purely algebraic way that ${\Lambda }^p$ splits as the direct sum $d*\left({\Lambda }^{p+1}\right)\oplus \delta *\left({\Lambda }^{p-1}\right)\oplus H^p$, where d* (resp. δ*) denotes the adjoint operator to d (resp. δ) with respect to that inner product.

Given a Hörmander system $X=\{X_1,\cdots ,X_m\}$ on a domain $\Omega \subseteq {𝐑}^n$ we show that any subelliptic harmonic morphism $\phi$ from $\Omega$ into a $\nu$-dimensional riemannian manifold $N$ is a (smooth) subelliptic harmonic map (in the sense of J. Jost & C-J. Xu, [9]). Also $\phi$ is a submersion provided that $\nu \le m$ and $X$ has rank $m$. If $\Omega ={𝐇}_n$ (the Heisenberg group) and $X=\left\{\frac{1}{2}\left(L_{\alpha }+L_{\overline{\alpha }}\right),\frac{1}{2i}\left(L_{\alpha }-L_{\overline{\alpha }}\right)\right\}$, where $L_{\overline{\alpha }}=\partial /\partial {\overline{z}}^{\alpha }-i{z}^{\alpha }\partial /\partial t$ is the Lewy operator, then a smooth map $\phi :\Omega \to N$ is a subelliptic harmonic morphism if and only if $\phi \circ \pi :(C\left({𝐇}_n\right),F_{{\theta }_0})\to N$ is a harmonic morphism, where $S^1\to C\left({𝐇}_n\right)\stackrel{\pi }{\to }\to {𝐇}_n$ is the canonical circle bundle and $F_{{\theta }_0}$ is the Fefferman...

We provide a new characterization of invariant harmonic unit vector fields on Lie groups endowed with a left-invariant metric. We use it to derive existence results and to construct new examples on Lie groups equipped with a bi-invariant metric, on three-dimensional Lie groups, on generalized Heisenberg groups, on Damek-Ricci spaces and on particular semi-direct products. In several cases a complete list of such vector fields is given. Furthermore, for a lot of the examples we determine associated...

We find all the left-invariant harmonic unit vector fields on the oscillator groups. Besides, we determine the associated harmonic maps from the oscillator group into its unit tangent bundle equipped with the associated Sasaki metric. Moreover, we investigate the stability and instability of harmonic unit vector fields on compact quotients of four dimensional oscillator group $G_1\left(1\right)$.

Isotropic almost complex structures $J_{\delta ,\sigma }$ define a class of Riemannian metrics $g_{\delta ,\sigma }$ on tangent bundles of Riemannian manifolds which are a generalization of the Sasaki metric. In this paper, some results will be obtained on the integrability of these almost complex structures and the notion of a harmonic unit vector field will be introduced with respect to the metrics $g_{\delta ,0}$. Furthermore, the necessary and sufficient conditions for a unit vector field to be a harmonic unit vector field will be obtained.

In the first part of this paper, we prove local interior and boundary gradient estimates for $p$-harmonic functions on general Riemannian manifolds. With these estimates, following the strategy in recent work of R. Moser, we prove an existence theorem for weak solutions to the level set formulation of the $1/H$ (inverse mean curvature) flow for hypersurfaces in ambient manifolds satisfying a sharp volume growth assumption. In the second part of this paper, we consider two parabolic analogues of the $p$-harmonic...

A necessary and sufficient condition for the Reeb vector field of a three dimensional non-Kenmotsu almost Kenmotsu manifold to be minimal is obtained. Using this result, we obtain some classifications of some types of $(k,\mu ,\nu )$-almost Kenmotsu manifolds. Also, we give some characterizations of the minimality of the Reeb vector fields of $(k,\mu ,\nu )$-almost Kenmotsu manifolds. In addition, we prove that the Reeb vector field of an almost Kenmotsu manifold with conformal Reeb foliation is minimal.

We compute numerically the minimizers of the Dirichlet energy$$E\left(u\right)=\frac{1}{2}{\int }_{B^2}{\left|\nabla u\right|}^2\mathrm{d}x$$among maps $u:B^2\to S^2$ from the unit disc into the unit sphere that satisfy a boundary condition and a degree condition. We use a Sobolev gradient algorithm for the minimization and we prove that its continuous version preserves the degree. For the discretization of the problem we use continuous $P_1$ finite elements. We propose an original mesh-refining strategy needed to preserve the degree with the discrete version of the algorithm (which is a preconditioned...

Un groupe localement compact $G$ a la propriété (T) de Kazhdan si la $1$-cohomologie de tout $G$-module hilbertien est nulle. Cette propriété de rigidité de la théorie des représentations de $G$ a trouvé des applications qui vont de la théorie ergodique à la théorie des graphes. Pendant près de 30 ans, les seuls exemples connus de groupes avec la propriété (T), provenaient des groupes algébriques simples sur les corps locaux, ou de leurs réseaux. La situation a radicalement changé ces dernières années :...

In this paper, we study the characterization of generalized $f$-harmonic morphisms between Riemannian manifolds. We prove that a map between Riemannian manifolds is an $f$-harmonic morphism if and only if it is a horizontally weakly conformal map satisfying some further conditions. We present new properties generalizing Fuglede-Ishihara characterization for harmonic morphisms ([Fuglede B., Harmonic morphisms between Riemannian manifolds, Ann. Inst. Fourier (Grenoble) 28 (1978), 107–144], [Ishihara T., A...