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Harmonic spheres in outer symmetric spaces, their canonical elements and Weierstrass type representations

Differential Geometry 2016-03-14 v3

Abstract

Making use of Murakami's classification of outer involutions in a Lie algebra and following the Morse-theoretic approach to harmonic two-spheres in Lie groups introduced by Burstall and Guest, we obtain a new classification of harmonic two-spheres in outer symmetric spaces and a Weierstrass-type representation for such maps. Several examples of harmonic maps into classical outer symmetric spaces are given in terms of meromorphic functions on S2S^2.

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@article{arxiv.1412.8348,
  title  = {Harmonic spheres in outer symmetric spaces, their canonical elements and Weierstrass type representations},
  author = {N. Correia and R. Pacheco},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.8348},
  year   = {2016}
}
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