English

Loxodromic unit vector field on punctured spheres

Differential Geometry 2019-10-01 v1

Abstract

In these short notes we characterize the loxodromic unit vector fields on antipodally punctured Euclidean spheres as the only ones achieving a lower bound for the volume functional depending on the Poincar\'e indexes around their singularities.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1909.13136,
  title  = {Loxodromic unit vector field on punctured spheres},
  author = {Jackeline Conrado and Adriana V. Nicoli and Giovanni N. Nunes},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.13136},
  year   = {2019}
}
R2 v1 2026-06-23T11:29:06.841Z