Harmonic maps into real hyperbolic space
Abstract
In [2,4,5,6,7 ] Calabi, Borbosa and Chern showed that there is a one-to-one correspondence between arbitrary pairs of full isotropic (terminology as in [8]) harmonic maps from a Riemann surface to Euclidean sphere and full totally isotropic holomorphic maps from the surface to complex projective space.In this paper we show, very explicity, how to construct a similar one-to-one correspondence when is replaced by real hyperbolic space with its standard metric. We get over a difficulty encountered by Barbosa of dealing with the zeros of certain wedge product by a technique adapted from [8].(The case of indefinite complex hyperbolic and projective spaces will be considered in a separate paper).
DOI Code:
10.1285/i15900932v3n1p29
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