Characteristic Laplacian in sub-Riemannian geometry

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNV104MaRDI QIDQ3466433zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jeremy Daniel, Xiaonan Ma

Publication date 1 February 2016

Published in IMRN. International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.4808

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17)

Abstract: We study a Laplacian operator related to the characteristic cohomology of a smooth manifold endowed with a distribution. We prove that this Laplacian does not behave very well: it is not hypoelliptic in general and does not respect the bigrading on forms in a complex setting. We also discuss the consequences of these negative results for a conjecture of P. Griffiths, concerning the characteristic cohomology of period domains.

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• The nonholonomic Laplace operator
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