{"title":"Harmonic Morphisms and Minimal Conformal Foliations on Lie Groups","authors":"Sigmundur Gudmundsson, Thomas Jack Munn","doi":"10.1007/s10455-025-10015-2","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Let <i>G</i> be a Lie group equipped with a left-invariant Riemannian metric. Let <i>K</i> be a semisimple and normal subgroup of <i>G</i> generating a left-invariant conformal foliation <span>\\(\\mathcal {F}\\)</span> on <i>G</i>. We then show that the foliation <span>\\(\\mathcal {F}\\)</span> is Riemannian and minimal. This means that locally the leaves of <span>\\(\\mathcal {F}\\)</span> are fibres of a harmonic morphism. We also prove that if the metric restricted to <i>K</i> is biinvariant then <span>\\(\\mathcal {F}\\)</span> is totally geodesic.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8268,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry","volume":"68 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7000,"publicationDate":"2025-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10455-025-10015-2.pdf","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry","FirstCategoryId":"100","ListUrlMain":"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10455-025-10015-2","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"MATHEMATICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Let G be a Lie group equipped with a left-invariant Riemannian metric. Let K be a semisimple and normal subgroup of G generating a left-invariant conformal foliation \(\mathcal {F}\) on G. We then show that the foliation \(\mathcal {F}\) is Riemannian and minimal. This means that locally the leaves of \(\mathcal {F}\) are fibres of a harmonic morphism. We also prove that if the metric restricted to K is biinvariant then \(\mathcal {F}\) is totally geodesic.
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This journal examines global problems of geometry and analysis as well as the interactions between these fields and their application to problems of theoretical physics. It contributes to an enlargement of the international exchange of research results in the field.
The areas covered in Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry include: global analysis, differential geometry, complex manifolds and related results from complex analysis and algebraic geometry, Lie groups, Lie transformation groups and harmonic analysis, variational calculus, applications of differential geometry and global analysis to problems of theoretical physics.