Sub-Riemannian geodesics and heat operator on odd dimensional spheres

DOI10.1007/S13324-012-0028-3MaRDI QIDQ2392598zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Mauricio Godoy Molina, Irina Markina

Publication date 2 August 2013

Published in Analysis and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1008.5265

zbMATH Keywords

heat operatorprincipal bundlesub-Laplaciansub-Riemannian geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

CR manifolds as boundaries of domains (32V15) Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17) Sphere bundles and vector bundles in algebraic topology (55R25)

Abstract: In this article we study the sub-Riemannian geometry of the spheres $S^{2n+1}$ and $S^{4n+3}$, arising from the principal $S^1-$bundle structure defined by the Hopf map and the principal $S^3-$bundle structure given by the quaternionic Hopf map respectively. The $S^1$ action leads to the classical contact geometry of $S^{2n+1}$, while the $S^3$ action gives another type of sub-Riemannian structure, with a distribution of corank 3. In both cases the metric is given as the restriction of the usual Riemannian metric on the respective horizontal distributions. For the contact $S^7$ case, we give an explicit form of the intrinsic sub-Laplacian and obtain a commutation relation between the sub-Riemannian heat operator and the heat operator in the vertical direction.

Review text

The authors study the sub-Riemannian geometry of the spheres \(S^{2n+1}\) and \(S^{4n+3}\), arising from the principal \(S^1\)-bundle structure defined by the Hopf map and the principal \(S^3\)-bundle structure given by the quaternionic Hopf map, respectively. The \(S^1\) action leads to the classical contact geometry of \(S^{2n+1}\), while the \(S^3\) action gives another type of sub-Riemannian structure, with a distribution of corank 3. In both cases the metric is given as the restriction of the usual Riemannian metric on the respective horizontal distributions. For the contact \(S^7\) case, the authors give an explicit form of the intrinsic sub-Laplacian and obtain a commutation relation between the sub-Riemannian heat operator and the heat operator in the vertical direction.

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