Generalized planar curves and quaternionic geometry

DOI10.1007/S10455-006-9023-YMaRDI QIDQ2501140zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jaroslav Hrdina, Jan Slovák

Publication date 4 September 2006

Published in Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0512593

zbMATH Keywords

generalized geodesicsplanar curvesquaternionic geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other special differential geometries (53A40) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10)

Abstract: Motivated by the analogies between the projective and the almost quaternionic geometries, we study the generalized planar curves and mappings. We follow, recover, and extend the classical approach as developed by Mikes and Sinyukov. Then we exploit the impact of the general results in the almost quaternionic geometry. In particular we show, that the natural class of H--planar curves coincides with the class of all geodesics of the so called Weyl connections and preserving this class turns out to be the necessary and sufficient condition on diffeomorphisms to become morphisms of almost quaternionic geometries.

Review text

After giving some equivalent definitions of (almost) quaternionic manifolds \(M\), and Weyl connections on them, the authors study generalized planar curves and mappings. In particular, if \(M\) is equipped with an \(A\)-structure (i.e. an \(\ell\)-dimensional vector subbundle in \(T^*M\otimes TM\), such that for each \(x\in M\) the identity affinor \(\text{id}_{TM}\) restricted to \(T_xM\) belongs to \(A_xM\subset T_x^*M\otimes T_xM\)), the definition of an \(A\)-planar curve is given, as well as the notion of a diffeomorphism between quaternionic manifolds equipped with an \(A\)-structure. The main result is that the natural class of \(\mathbb H\)-planar curves coincides with the class of all geodesics of the Weyl connections. Preserving this class turns out to be the necessary and sufficient condition on diffeomorphisms to become morphisms of almost quaternionic geometries.

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