H-type foliations

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2022.101952MaRDI QIDQ2099442zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Fabrice Baudoin, L. Rizzi, Gianmarco Vega-Molino, Erlend Grong

Publication date 23 November 2022

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.02563

zbMATH Keywords

\(H\)-contact foliationsub-Riemannian geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs on Heisenberg groups, Lie groups, Carnot groups, etc. (35R03) (G)-structures (53C10) Foliations (differential geometric aspects) (53C12) Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17)

Abstract: With a view toward sub-Riemannian geometry, we introduce and study H-type foliations. These structures are natural generalizations of K-contact geometries which encompass as special cases K-contact manifolds, twistor spaces, 3K contact manifolds and H-type groups. Under an horizontal Ricci curvature lower bound, we prove on those structures sub-Riemannian diameter upper bounds and first eigenvalue estimates for the sub-Laplacian. Then, using a result by Moroianu-Semmelmann, we classify the H-type foliations that carry a parallel horizontal Clifford structure. Finally, we prove an horizontal Einstein property and compute the horizontal Ricci curvature of those spaces in codimension more than 2.

Review text

An \(H\)-type (or ``horizontal-type) foliation is a Riemannian manifold \((M,g)\) endowed with a constant rank distribution \(H\) whose sections satisfy the bracket-generating condition, and its orthogonal complement \(H^{\perp}\) is an integrable subbundle of \(TM\). Such structures encompass sub-Riemannian manifolds, contact structures and twistor spaces. The purpose of this article is to introduce such structures to and set up the basic results for the development of geometric analysis. In particular, the authors use a horizontal lower bound for the Ricci flow to estimate the first eigenvalue of the sub-Laplacian. Then they use a result by \textit{A. Moroianu} and \textit{U. Semmelmann} [Adv. Math. 228, No. 2, 940--967 (2011; Zbl 1231.53042)] to classify structures as such, which carry a parallel horizontal Clifford structure. They also give certain computations in codimension greater than 2.

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