On the space of oriented geodesics of hyperbolic 3-space

DOI10.1216/RMJ-2010-40-4-1183MaRDI QIDQ990314zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Nikos Georgiou, Brendan Guilfoyle

Publication date 7 September 2010

Published in Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0702276

zbMATH Keywords

hyperbolic spaceisometry groupKaehler structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22)

Abstract: We construct a K"ahler structure ($mathbbJ,Omega,mathbbG$) on the space $mathbbL({mathbbH}^3)$ of oriented geodesics of hyperbolic 3-space ${mathbbH}^3$ and investigate its properties. We prove that ($mathbbL({mathbbH}^3),mathbbJ)$ is biholomorphic to $$, where $$ is the reflected diagonal, and that the K"ahler metric $mathbbG$ is of neutral signature, conformally flat and scalar flat. We establish that the identity component of the isometry group of the metric $mathbbG$ on $mathbbL({mathbbH}^3)$ is isomorphic to the identity component of the hyperbolic isometry group. Finally, we show that the geodesics of $mathbbG$ correspond to ruled minimal surfaces in ${mathbbH}^3$, which are totally geodesic iff the geodesics are null.

Review text

The authors construct a Kähler structure on the space of oriented geodesics of the three-dimensional hyperbolic space and investigate its properties.

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