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Harmonic morphisms from homogeneous spaces of positive curvature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2014

SIGMUNDUR GUDMUNDSSON  and
MARTIN SVENSSON
SIGMUNDUR GUDMUNDSSON
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Lund University, Box 118, S-22100 Lund, Sweden. e-mail: [email protected]
MARTIN SVENSSON
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark. e-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

We prove local existence of complex-valued harmonic morphisms from any Riemannian homogeneous space of positive curvature, except the Berger space Sp(2)/SU(2).

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 157 , Issue 2 , September 2014 , pp. 321 - 327
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 2014 

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