On the geometry of the space of oriented lines of Euclidean space

Monopoles and geodesics

Nigel Hitchin · Communications in Mathematical Physics · 1982 · 400 citations

Transformation Groups of Spheres

Deane Montgomery, Hans Samelson · Annals of Mathematics · 1943 · 315 citations

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Geometry +12

Some remarks about Lie groups transitive on spheres and tori

Armand Borel · Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society · 1949 · 155 citations · Full text

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Geometry +7

Submersions and geodesics

Barrett O’Neill · Duke Mathematical Journal · 1967 · 69 citations

On the space of oriented affine lines in $$ \mathbb{R}^3 $$

Brendan Guilfoyle, Wilhelm Klingenberg · Archiv der Mathematik · 2004 · 12 citations · Full text

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Geometry +10