On totally geodesic foliations and doubly ruled surfaces in a compact Lie group

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-2011-10821-9zbMATH Open1235.53027arXiv0910.3844OpenAlexW2963730799WikidataQ115289278 ScholiaQ115289278MaRDI QIDQ3103286FDOQ3103286

Authors: Marius Munteanu, Kristopher Tapp 

Publication date: 7 December 2011

Published in: Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: For a Riemannian submersion from a simple compact Lie group with a bi-invariant metric, we prove the action of its holonomy group on the fibers is transitive. As a step towards classifying Riemannian submersions with totally geodesic fibers, we consider the parameterized surface induced by lifting a base geodesic to points along a geodesic in a fiber. Such a surface is "doubly ruled" (it is ruled by horizontal geodesics and also by vertical geodesics). Its characterizing properties allow us to define "doubly ruled parameterized surfaces" in any Riemannian manifold, independent of Riemannian submersions. We initiate a study of the doubly ruled parameterized surfaces in compact Lie groups and in other symmetric spaces by establishing several rigidity theorems and by providing several examples with unexpected properties.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.3844

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zbMATH Keywords

Lie groupRiemannian submersiondoubly ruled surfacegood triple

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foliations (differential geometric aspects) (53C12) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30)

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