Observations on harmonic maps and singular varieties
In this paper, we study the characterization of generalized -harmonic morphisms between Riemannian manifolds. We prove that a map between Riemannian manifolds is an -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...
A tangent bundle to a Riemannian manifold carries various metrics induced by a Riemannian tensor. We consider harmonic vector fields with respect to some of these metrics. We give a simple proof that a vector field on a compact manifold is harmonic with respect to the Sasaki metric on TM if and only if it is parallel. We also consider the metrics II and I + II on a tangent bundle (cf. [YI]) and harmonic vector fields generated by them.