Isometries of Carnot groups and sub-Finsler homogeneous manifolds

DOI10.1007/S12220-014-9552-8MaRDI QIDQ254269zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Enrico Le Donne, Alessandro Ottazzi

Publication date 8 March 2016

Published in The Journal of Geometric Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.5097

zbMATH Keywords

Carnot groupsHilbert's fifth problemhomogeneous spacesregularity of isometriessub-Finsler geometrysub-Riemannian geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups as automorphisms of other structures (22F50) Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) Global differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53C60) Groups of diffeomorphisms and homeomorphisms as manifolds (58D05)

Abstract: We show that isometries between open sets of Carnot groups are affine. This result generalizes a result of Hamenstadt. Our proof does not rely on her proof. In addition, we study global isometries of general homogeneous manifolds equipped with left-invariant subFinsler distances. We show that each isometry is determined by the blow up at one point. For proving the results, we consider the action of isometries on the space of Killing vector fields. We make use of results by Capogna-Cowling and by Gleason-Montgomery-Zippin for obtaining smoothness of the isometric action.

Review text

The paper deals with a fundamental problem in geometry which consists of the study of spaces that are isometrically homogeneous, i.e., metric spaces on which the group of isometries acts transitively. The authors prove that isometries between open sets of Carnot groups are affine and each isometry of a sub-Riemannian manifold is determined by the horizontally differential at one point. Also, they extend the result to sub-Finslerian homogeneous manifolds and study the regularity of isometries of homogeneous manifolds equipped with homogeneous distances that induce the topology of manifold.

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