Harmonic morphisms, conformal foliations and shear-free ray congruences

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dc.creatorBaird, P.
dc.creatorWood, J. C.
dc.date1996-03-13
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T09:12:43Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T09:12:43Z
dc.descriptionEquivalences between conformal foliations on Euclidean $3$-space, Hermitian structures on Euclidean $4$-space, shear-free ray congruences on Minkowski $4$-space, and holomorphic foliations on complex $4$-space are explained geometrically and twistorially; these are used to show that 1) any real-analytic complex-valued harmonic morphism without critical points defined on an open subset of Minkowski space is conformally equivalent to the direction vector field of a shear-free ray congruence, 2) the boundary values at infinity of a complex-valued harmonic morphism on hyperbolic $4$-space define a real-analytic conformal foliation by curves of an open subset of Euclidean $3$-space and all such foliations arise this way. This gives an explicit method of finding such foliations; some examples are given.
dc.description30 pages, Latex 2.09, one figure
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/dg-ga/9603005
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/dg-ga/9603005
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/152116
dc.subjectDifferential Geometry
dc.titleHarmonic morphisms, conformal foliations and shear-free ray congruences
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