Isometries of complemented sub-Riemannian manifolds

DOI10.1515/ADVGEOM-2014-0015MaRDI QIDQ5170690zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Robert K. Hladky

Publication date 24 July 2014

Published in advg (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.1066, http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/advgeom.2014.14.issue-2/advgeom-2014-0015/advgeom-2014-0015.xml?format=INT

zbMATH Keywords

isometriesRicci curvatureKilling fieldsBochner formulaCarnot-Carathéodory geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17)

Abstract: We show that the group of smooth isometries of a complemented sub-Riemannian manifold form a Lie group and establish dimension estimates based on the torsion of the canonical connection. We explore the interaction of curvature and the structure of isometries and Killing fields and derive a Bochner formula for Killing fields. Sub-Riemannian generalizations of classical results of Bochner and Berger are established. We also apply our theory to common sub-categories of complemented sub-Riemannian geometries and show how to compute the isometry groups for several examples, including SO(n), SL(n) and the rototranslation group.

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