Helical CR structures and sub-Riemannian geodesics

DOI10.1080/17476930902763801MaRDI QIDQ3625383zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors John P. D'Angelo, Jeremy T. Tyson

Publication date 12 May 2009

Published in Complex Variables and Elliptic Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0802.1730

zbMATH Keywords

Carnot grouphelical CR structurehigher curvaturehomogeneous polynormialproper holomorphic mapping

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17)

Abstract: A helical CR structure is a decomposition of a real Euclidean space into an even-dimensional horizontal subspace and its orthogonal vertical complement, together with an almost complex structure on the horizontal space and a marked vector in the vertical space. We prove an equivalence between such structures and step two Carnot groups equipped with a distinguished normal geodesic, and also between such structures and smooth real curves whose derivatives have constant Euclidean norm. As a consequence, we relate step two Carnot groups equipped with sub-Riemannian geodesics with this family of curves. The restriction to the unit circle of certain planar homogeneous polynomial mappings gives an instructive class of examples. We describe these examples in detail.

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