Invariant Minimal Unit Vector Fields on Lie Groups
Tóm tắt
We provide a new characterization of invariant minimal unit vector fields on Lie groups and use it to construct some new examples. In particular, we determine all these vector fields on three-dimensional Lie groups.
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