TY  - BOOK
AU  - Burstall,Francis E.
AU  - Rawnsley,John H.
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Twistor Theory for Riemannian Symmetric Spaces: With Applications to Harmonic Maps of Riemann Surfaces 
T2  - Lecture Notes in Mathematics,
SN  - 9783540470526
AV  - QA641-670 
U1  - 516.36 23
PY  - 1990///
CY  - Berlin, Heidelberg
PB  - Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Imprint: Springer
KW  - Mathematics
KW  - Topological Groups
KW  - Global differential geometry
KW  - Differential Geometry
KW  - Topological Groups, Lie Groups
N1  - Homogeneous geometry -- Harmonic maps and twistor spaces -- Symmetric spaces -- Flag manifolds -- The twistor space of a Riemannian symmetric space -- Twistor lifts over Riemannian symmetric spaces -- Stable Harmonic 2-spheres -- Factorisation of harmonic spheres in Lie groups
N2  - In this monograph on twistor theory and its applications to harmonic map theory, a central theme is the interplay between the complex homogeneous geometry of flag manifolds and the real homogeneous geometry of symmetric spaces. In particular, flag manifolds are shown to arise as twistor spaces of Riemannian symmetric spaces. Applications of this theory include a complete classification of stable harmonic 2-spheres in Riemannian symmetric spaces and a Bäcklund transform for harmonic 2-spheres in Lie groups which, in many cases, provides a factorisation theorem for such spheres as well as gap phenomena. The main methods used are those of homogeneous geometry and Lie theory together with some algebraic geometry of Riemann surfaces. The work addresses differential geometers, especially those with interests in minimal surfaces and homogeneous manifolds
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BFb0095561
ER  -