Contact projective structures

DOI10.1512/IUMJ.2005.54.2603MaRDI QIDQ3376389zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Daniel J. F. Fox

Publication date 23 March 2006

Published in Indiana University Mathematics Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0402332

zbMATH Keywords

Cartan connectioncontact projective structureparabolic geometrypseudo-Hermitian manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Projective connections (53B10) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10)

Abstract: A contact projective structure is a contact path geometry the paths of which are among the geodesics of some affine connection. In the manner of T.Y. Thomas there is associated to each contact projective structure an ambient affine connection on a symplectic manifold with one-dimensional fibers over the contact manifold and using this the local equivalence problem for contact projective structures is solved by the construction of a canonical regular Cartan connection. This Cartan connection is normal if and only if an invariant contact torsion vanishes. Every contact projective structure determines canonical paths transverse to the contact structure which fill out the contact projective structure to give a full projective structure, and the vanishing of the contact torsion implies the contact projective ambient connection agrees with the Thomas ambient connection of the corresponding projective structure. An analogue of the classical Beltrami theorem is proved for pseudo-hermitian manifolds with transverse symmetry.

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