Isometries of almost-Riemannian structures on Lie groups

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2018.08.003MaRDI QIDQ1792429zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Philippe Jouan, Guilherme Zsigmond, Víctor Ayala

Publication date 11 October 2018

Published in Differential Geometry and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.00649

zbMATH Keywords

almost-Riemannian geometryisometriesLie groupslinear vector fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General properties and structure of real Lie groups (22E15) Nilpotent and solvable Lie groups (22E25) Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Control problems involving ordinary differential equations (34H05) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30)

Abstract: A simple Almost-Riemannian Structure on a Lie group G is defined by a linear vector field (that is an infinitesimal automorphism) and dim(G) -- 1 left-invariant ones. It is first proven that two different ARSs are isometric if and only if there exists an isometry between them that fixes the identity. Such an isometry preserves the left-invariant distribution and the linear field. If the Lie group is nilpotent it is an automorphism. These results are used to state a complete classification of the ARSs on the 2D affine and the Heisenberg groups.

Review text

An almost Riemannian structure (ARS) is a manifold \(M\) endowed with a symmetric tensor field \(g\) that fails to be regular at a certain nowhere dense subset \({\mathcal Z}\subset M\). The ARS's on an \(n\)-dimensional Lie group \(G\) considered in this paper are given by a set \(\{Y_1,\ldots,Y_{n-1}\}\) of left-invariant vector fields and a linear vector field \(X\) (i.e., an infinitesimal automorphism) such that \(\{X,Y_1,\ldots,Y_{n-1}\}\) at points not in \({\mathcal Z}\) form an orthonormal frame for \(g\). Moreover, the vector fields \(Y_1,\ldots,Y_{n-1}\) and their commutators are assumed to span the whole tangent bundle. Consequently, together with \(g\) the \((n-1)\)-dimensional distribution \(H\) spanned by \(\{Y_1,\ldots,Y_{n-1}\}\) defines a sub-Riemannian structure. In Section 2 the authors consider basic notions and properties, so for instance the singular locus \({\mathcal Z}\) of such ARSs. They single out cases when it is a submanifold or a subgroup. The group of isometries of such ARSs is studied. It can not act transitively since isometries preserve \({\mathcal Z}\). In Section 3 some general facts about isometries between two ARSs on a group \(G\) are given. Under such isometries the singular loci as well as the zero sets of their linear vector fields are mapped into each other. Two isometries that preserve \(e\) and whose tangent maps at \(e\) agree are identical. On a nilpotent group isometries preserving \(e\) are automorphisms. Based on these results, in the remaining part of the paper, for the 3-dimensional Heisenberg group and for the group of affine transformations of \({\mathbb R}^2\) a classification of such ARSs is given.

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