Some comments on projective quadrics subordinate to pseudo-Hermitian spaces (Q430755): Difference between revisions

The article presents the same results as in [\textit{P. Anglès}, ``Study of some fundamental projective quadrics associated with a standard pseudo-Hermitian space \(H_{p,q}\)'', Adv. appl. Clifford alg. \url{doi:10.1007/s00006-010-0257-1}], but here the derivation is done by a different method. Subjects of the considerations are 1) the projective quadric \(Q'\) obtained by taking the quotient of the isotropic cone in a standard pseudo-Hermitian space \(H_{p,q}\) with respect to the positive real numbers \({\mathbb R}^{+}\) and 2) the real compact \((2n-3)\)-dimensional manifold \(\widetilde{Q}=Q'/U(1)\) where \(U(1)\) is the circle group; \(\widetilde{Q}\) is studied as a compactification of \({\mathbb R}\times\,H_{p-1,q-1}\). By \textit{W. Kopczyński} and \textit{L. S. Woronowicz} [Rep. Math. Phys. 2, 35--51 (1971; Zbl 0225.53021)], there exists a one-to-one correspondence between null geodesics in the compactified Minkowski space and the isotropic lines in the pseudo-Hermitian space \(V\approx\,H_{2,2}\). The author studies this correspondence for the general case of signature \((p,q)\).