Hou Zixin
The theory of harmonic maps has been developed since the 1960's (see [2]). In recent years, some authors discussed the harmonicity of "homogeneous" maps between Riemannian homogeneous spaces using the theory of Lie groups. Let G and G' be compact Lie groups, H and H' their closed subgroups respectively. Assume that a homomorphism θ: G→G' maps H into H'; then there exists an induced map fθ: G/H→G'/H'. M.A. Guest gave a necessary and sufficient condition for such a map to be harmonic, when G/H and G'/H' are generalized flag manifolds, H=T is a maximal torus and G' is a unitary group; and he gave some interesting examples (see [3]). We generalize his results to the case of general generalized flag manifolds G/H, i.e. H is a centralizer of a torus, and give some new examples of harmonic maps.