Sp(3,R) Monge geometries in dimension 8

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2017.04.006MaRDI QIDQ2399771zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors I. M. Anderson, Pawel Nurowski

Publication date 24 August 2017

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.08675

zbMATH Keywords

Cartan's equivalence methodCartan's reduction procedureparabolic geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric methods in ordinary differential equations (34A26) Differential invariants (local theory), geometric objects (53A55) Exterior differential systems (Cartan theory) (58A15)

Abstract: We study a geometry associated with rank 3 distributions in dimension 8, whose symbol algebra is constant and has a simple Lie algebra sp(3,R) as Tanaka prolongation. We restrict our considerations to only those distributions that are defined in terms of a systems of ODEs of the form $dot{z}_{ij}=fracpartia{l}^{2}f(dot{x}_1,dot{x}_2)partialdot{x}_{i}partialdot{x}_j$, $ileqj=1,2$. For them we built the full system of local differential invariants, by solving an equivalence problem a'la Cartan, in the spirit of his 1910's five variable paper. The considered geometry is a parabolic geometry, and we show that its main invariant - the harmonic curvature - is a certain quintic. In the case when this quintic is maximally degenerate but nonzero, we use Cartan's reduction procedure and reduce the EDS governing the invariants to 11, 10 and 9 dimensions. As a byproduct all homogeneous models having maximally degenerate harmonic curvature quintic are found. They have symmetry algebras of dimension 11 (a unique structue), 10 (a 1-parameter family of nonequivalent structures) or 9 (precisely two nonequivalent structures).

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