Integral curves of Killing vector fields in a complex projective space

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Authors Sadahiro Maeda, Toshiaki Adachi

Publication date 10 November 2002

Published in Memoirs of the Faculty of Science and Engineering. Shimane University. Series B. Mathematical Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

complex projective spaceFrenet frameKilling vector fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global submanifolds (53C40) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Global differential geometry of Hermitian and Kählerian manifolds (53C55)

Review text

The authors consider the complex projective \(n\)-dimensional space of constant holomorphic sectional curvature \(4\) as a model space. Roughly speaking, a smooth curve \(\gamma\) in the model space is a helix when all its curvatures (in the Frenet frame) are constant and a circle when the Frenet frame has only two non-zero vectors and one constant non-zero curvature (the others are identically zero). They study several natural questions: Under which conditions is a circle in the projective space closed? For each positive \(l\) does there exist a unique closed circle whose length is \(l\) (up to isometries)? As a tool, some circles are considered as integral curves of suitable Killing vector fields. Also distance spheres and closed helices are studied.

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