On some sub-Riemannian objects in hypersurfaces of sub-Riemannian manifolds

DOI10.1017/S0004972700034407MaRDI QIDQ3158792zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors K. H. Tan, Xiao-Ping Yang

Publication date 31 January 2005

Published in Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0701401

zbMATH Keywords

connectivityhypersurfacesub-Riemannian manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17) Global submanifolds (53C40)

Abstract: We study some sub-Riemannian objects (such as horizontal connectivity, horizontal connection, horizontal tangent plane, horizontal mean curvature) in hypersurfaces of sub-Riemannian manifolds. We prove that if a connected hypersurface in a contact manifold of dimension more than three is noncharacteristic or with isolated characteristic points, then given two points, there exists at least one piecewise smooth horizontal curve in this hypersurface connecting them. In any sub-Riemannian manifold, we obtain the sub-Riemannian version of the fundamental theorem of Riemannian geometry. We use this nonholonomic connection to study horizontal mean curvature of hypersurfaces.

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