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 \pm\phi:M→ S<sup>2m</sup> from a Riemann surface to Euclidean sphere and full totally isotropic holomorphic maps f:M→ℂP<sup>2m</sup> from the surface to complex projective space.In this paper we show, very explicity, how to construct a similar one-to-one correspondence when S<sup>2m</sup> is replaced by real hyperbolic space H<sup>2m</sup> 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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