Lipschitz homotopy groups of the Heisenberg groups

DOI10.1007/S00039-014-0264-9MaRDI QIDQ2453455zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Stefan Wenger, Robert Young

Publication date 6 June 2014

Published in Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.6943

zbMATH Keywords

Heisenberg groupLipschitz homotopy groupsmooth horizontal group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17) Homotopy groups of topological groups and homogeneous spaces (57T20)

Abstract: Lipschitz and horizontal maps from an $n$-dimensional space into the $(2n+1)$-dimensional Heisenberg group $H^n$ are abundant, while maps from higher-dimensional spaces are much more restricted. DeJarnette-Haj{l}asz-Lukyanenko-Tyson constructed horizontal maps from $S^k$ to $H^n$ which factor through $n$-spheres and showed that these maps have no smooth horizontal fillings. In this paper, however, we build on an example of Kaufman to show that these maps sometimes have Lipschitz fillings. This shows that the Lipschitz and the smooth horizontal homotopy groups of a space may differ. Conversely, we show that any Lipschitz map $S^{k}o{H}^1$ factors through a tree and is thus Lipschitz null-homotopic if $kge2$.

Review text

Let \(X\) be a sub-Riemannian manifold and \({\pi }^ H _k (X)\) the smooth horizontal groups and \({\pi }^ {Lip} _k (X)\) the Lipschitz homotopy groups. This paper answers two questions posed in [\textit{N. Dejarnette} et al., ``On the lack of density of Lipschitz mappings in Sobolev spaces with Heisenberg target, Conform. Geom. Dyn. 18, 119--156 (2014; Zbl 1316.46034)] in the negative (see Theorems 1 and 2). The authors show that the Lipschitz and smooth horizontal homotopy groups of a space may differ. Conversely, they show that any Lipschitz map \(S^k \to H^1\), \(\mathit{H}^ 1\) the Heisenberg group, factors through a tree and is thus Lipschitz null-homotopic if \(k\geq 2\) (see Theorems 3 and 5).

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