Totally null surfaces in neutral Kaehler 4-manifolds

zbMATH Open1356.53027arXiv0810.4054MaRDI QIDQ2834824FDOQ2834824

Authors: Nikos Georgiou, Brendan Guilfoyle, Wilhelm Klingenberg 

Publication date: 24 November 2016

Published in: Balkan Journal of Geometry and its Applications (BJGA) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the totally null surfaces of the neutral Kaehler metric on certain 4-manifolds. The tangent spaces of totally null surfaces are either self-dual ($alpha$-planes) or anti-self-dual ($$-planes) and so we consider $alpha$-surfaces and $$-surfaces. The metric of the examples we study, which include the spaces of oriented geodesics of 3-manifolds of constant curvature, are anti-self-dual, and so it is well-known that the $alpha$-planes are integrable and $alpha$-surfaces exist. These are holomorphic Lagrangian surfaces, which for the geodesic spaces correspond to totally umbilic foliations of the underlying 3-manifold. The $$-surfaces are less known and our interest is mainly in their description. In particular, we classify the $$-surfaces of the neutral Kaehler metric on $TN$, the tangent bundle to a Riemannian 2-manifold $N$. These include the spaces of oriented geodesics in Euclidean and Lorentz 3-space, for which we show that the $$-surfaces are affine tangent bundles to curves of constant geodesic curvature on $S^2$ and $H^2$, respectively. In addition, we construct the $$-surfaces of the space of oriented geodesics of hyperbolic 3-space.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.4054

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zbMATH Keywords

self-duality\(\alpha\)-planes[https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/w/index.php?title=+Special%3ASearch&search=neutral+K%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BDhler+surface&go=Go neutral K��hler surface]\(\beta\)-planes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30) Local differential geometry of Hermitian and Kählerian structures (53B35) Local submanifolds (53B25) Differential line geometry (53A25)

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