In this paper it is shown that the tension field of the Gauss map can be identified with the covariant derivative of the mean curvature vector field. Since a map with vanishing tension field is called harmonic the following theorem is obtained as a corollary. The Gauss map of a minimal submanifold is harmonic.
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Ruh et al. (1970) studied this question.