A codimension 3 sub-Riemannian structure on the Gromoll-Meyer exotic sphere

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2017.05.010MaRDI QIDQ2399776zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Wolfram Bauer, Kenro Furutani, Chisato Iwasaki

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/1608.02444

zbMATH Keywords

exotic spherehorizontal subspacenon-holonomic subbundleprincipal bundlesub-Riemannian structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17) Differentiable structures in differential topology (57R55) Groups acting on specific manifolds (57S25)

Abstract: We construct a co-dimension $3$ completely non-holonomic sub-bundle on the Gromoll-Meyer exotic $7$ sphere based on its realization as a base space of a Sp(2)-principal bundle with the structure group Sp(1). The same method is valid for constructing a co-dimension 3 completely non-holonomic sub-bundle on the standard 7 sphere (or more general on a $4n+3$ dimensional standard sphere). In the latter case such a construction based on the Hopf bundle is well-known. Our method provides an alternated simple proof for the standard sphere $mathbb{S}^7$.

Review text

In this paper, the authors study the Gromoll-Meyer exotic 7-sphere \(\Sigma^7_{GM}\) constructed in [\textit{D. Gromoll} and \textit{W. Meyer}, Ann. Math. (2) 100, 401--406 (1974; Zbl 0293.53015)]. The main result of the paper is to construct a sub-Riemannian structure on \(\Sigma^7_{GM}\), i.e., a sub-bundle of the tangent bundle, which has codimension three. This structure is completely non-holonomic, or in other words, bracket-generating, of step two. (Bracket-generating is the usual non-degeneracy condition studied in sub-Riemannian geometry.) They also show how their method produces an analogous sub-Riemannian structure on the standard 7-sphere \(S^7\), thus giving a new proof of a result previously shown in [\textit{M. Godoy Molina} and \textit{I. Markina}, Rev. Mat. Iberoam. 27, No. 3, 997-1022 (2011; Zbl 1228.53043)].

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