scholarly journals Commuting vector fields on $S\sp{2}$

1964 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 138-138
Author(s):  
Elon L. Lima
1969 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-184
Author(s):  
R. S. D. Thomas

T. J. Willmore has shown that if a differentiable manifold's rank (the maximum number of everywhere linearly independent commuting vector fields definable on it) equals the manifold's dimension, then the manifold is a torus of the appropriate dimension [1]. This theorem is proved more simply and without any differentiability hypothesis in the present note.


1965 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
pp. 70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elon L. Lima

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