Contact integral geometry and the Heisenberg algebra

DOI10.2140/GT.2019.23.3041zbMATH Open1432.53107arXiv1712.09313OpenAlexW3100564391WikidataQ126626432 ScholiaQ126626432MaRDI QIDQ2279150FDOQ2279150

Authors: Dmitry Faifman 

Publication date: 12 December 2019

Published in: Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Generalizing Weyl's tube formula and building on Chern's work, Alesker reinterpreted the Lipschitz-Killing curvature integrals as a family of valuations (finitely-additive measures with good analytic properties), attached canonically to any Riemannian manifold, which is universal with respect to isometric embeddings. In this note, we uncover a similar structure for contact manifolds. Namely, we show that a contact manifold admits a canonical family of generalized valuations, which are universal under contact embeddings. Those valuations assign numerical invariants to even-dimensional submanifolds, which in a certain sense measure the curvature at points of tangency to the contact structure. Moreover, these valuations generalize to the class of manifolds equipped with the structure of a Heisenberg algebra on their cotangent bundle. Pursuing the analogy with Euclidean integral geometry, we construct symplectic-invariant distributions on Grassmannians to produce Crofton formulas on the contact sphere. Using closely related distributions, we obtain Crofton formulas also in the linear symplectic space.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.09313

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zbMATH Keywords

Heisenberg algebracontact manifoldintrinsic volumesCrofton formulaWeyl principleLipschitz Killing curvatures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Mixed volumes and related topics in convex geometry (52A39) Differential invariants (local theory), geometric objects (53A55) Integral geometry (53C65) Symplectic manifolds (general theory) (53D05) Almost contact and almost symplectic manifolds (53D15) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10) Dissections and valuations (Hilbert's third problem, etc.) (52B45)

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