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In this chapter, we introduce the second fundamental form of a map between semi-Riemannian manifolds. The second fundamental form of a map is used largely in the analysis of certain properties of maps between manifolds in the literature. However, in this chapter, we study the second fundamental form of a map only as much as we need to carry out our work on semi-Riemannian maps. We devote the first section to the definition and basic properties of the second fundamental form of a map between semi-Riemannian manifolds. In section 2, we define affine and harmonic maps between semi-Riemannian manifolds and derive certain properties of affine maps. Then in section 3, we define the divergence of a vector field along a map between semi-Riemannian manifolds and generalize the semi-Riemannian divergence theorem to such vector fields. Finally in section 4, we derive the Bochner identity of a map between semi-Riemannian manifolds which will be used in showing a Riemannian map to be affine under certain curvature conditions. Throughout this chapter, and in all following chapters, let M 1 M 2 and M be manifolds with dimensions n 1, n 2 and n, respectively. Also let (M l, g 1), (M 2, g 2 and (M, g) be semi-Riemannian manifolds of indices v l, v 2 and v with Levi-Civita connections \(\mathop \nabla \limits^1 ,\mathop \nabla \limits^2 \) and ∇, respectively, unless otherwise stated.
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García-Río, E., Kupeli, D.N. (1999). Second Fundamental Form of a Map. In: Semi-Riemannian Maps and Their Applications. Mathematics and Its Applications, vol 475. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2979-6_3
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