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LEFT-INVARIANT MINIMAL UNIT VECTOR FIELDS ON A LIE GROUP OF CONSTANT NEGATIVE SECTIONAL CURVATURE

  • Yi, Seung-Hun (SCIENCES AND LIBERAL ARTS (MATHEMATICS) YOUNGDONG UNIVERSITY)
  • Published : 2009.07.31
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Abstract

We find all left-invariant minimal unit vector fields and strongly normal unit vector fields on a Lie group which is isometric to the hyperbolic space.

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