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Full description of totally geodesic unit vector fields on 2-dimensional Riemannian manifolds

Differential Geometry 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We give a full geometrical description of local totally geodesic unit vector field on Riemannian 2-manifold, considering the field as a local imbedding of the manifold into its unit tangent bundle with the Sasaki metric.

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@article{arxiv.math/0503560,
  title  = {Full description of totally geodesic unit vector fields on 2-dimensional Riemannian manifolds},
  author = {A. Yampolsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0503560},
  year   = {2007}
}