Invariant affine connections on odd-dimensional spheres

DOI10.1007/S10455-015-9489-6zbMATH Open1342.53073arXiv1503.08401OpenAlexW1866232018MaRDI QIDQ282767FDOQ282767

Authors: A. Garvín, Francisco J. Palomo, Cristina Draper Fontanals 

Publication date: 12 May 2016

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

Abstract: A Riemann-Cartan manifold is a Riemannian manifold endowed with an affine connection which is compatible with the metric tensor. This affine connection is not necessarily torsion free. Under the assumption that the manifold is a homogeneous space, the notion of homogeneous Riemann-Cartan space is introduced in a natural way. For the case of the odd dimensional spheres $mathbb{S}^{2n+1}$ viewed as homogeneous spaces of the special unitary groups, the classical Nomizu's Theorem on invariant connections has permitted to obtain an algebraical description of all the connections which turn the spheres $mathbb{S}^{2n+1}$ into homogeneous Riemann-Cartan spaces. The expressions of such connections as covariant derivatives are given by means of several invariant tensors: the ones of the usual Sasakian structure of the sphere; an invariant 3-differential form coming from a $3$-Sasakian structure on $mathbb{S}^7$; and the involved ones in the almost contact metric structure of $mathbb{S}^5$ provided by its natural embedding into the nearly K"ahler manifold $mathbb{S}^6$. Furthermore, the invariant connections sharing geodesics with the Levi-Civita one have also been completely described. Finally, $mathbb{S}^3$ and $mathbb{S}^7$ are characterized as the unique odd-dimensional spheres which admit nontrivial invariant connections satisfying an Einstein-type equation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.08401

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zbMATH Keywords

invariant connections\(\nabla\)-Einstein manifoldsodd-dimensional spheresRiemann-Cartan manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Connections (general theory) (53C05) Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30)

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