Harmonic vector fields on extended 3-dimensional Riemannian Lie groups

Abstract

Given two Riemannian manifolds $(B,g_B)$ and $(F,g_F)$, we give harmonicity conditions for vector fields on the Riemannian warped product $B\times_fF$, with $f:B \longrightarrow ]0,+\infty[$, using a characteristic variational condition. Then, we apply this to the case $B=\mathbb{R}$ and $F$ is a three-dimensional connected Riemannian Lie group $G$ equipped with a left-invariant metric, to determine harmonic vector fields on $\mathbb{R}\times_fG$. We give examples of harmonic vector fields on $G$ which are not left-invariant and determine harmonic vector fields on $\mathbb{R}\times_fG$. We conclude with some examples of vector fields on $\mathbb{R}\times_fG$ which are harmonic maps.