Split octonions and generic rank two distributions in dimension five.

zbMATH Open1164.53362MaRDI QIDQ3538801FDOQ3538801

Authors: Katja Sagerschnig 

Publication date: 24 November 2008

Full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/130211

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zbMATH Keywords

octonionshomogeneous modelCartan geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) Vector distributions (subbundles of the tangent bundles) (58A30)

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• Singularities of tangent surfaces in Cartan's split \(G_2\)-geometry
• Local equivalence of some maximally symmetric rolling distributions and \(SU(2)\) Pfaffian systems
• Cartan's incomplete classification and an explicit ambient metric of holonomy \(\mathrm G_2^\ast\)
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• Dancing polygons, rolling balls, and the Cartan-Engel distribution
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• On Nurowski's conformal structure associated to a generic rank two distribution in dimension five
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• Geometric structures for the \(\mathsf{G}_2^\prime \)-Hitchin component
• The geometry of almost Einstein \((2,3,5)\) distributions
• \(\mathbf{Sp}(3,\mathbb{R})\) Monge geometries in dimension 8
• Analytic torsion of generic rank two distributions in dimension five
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• Homogeneous real \((2,3,5)\) distributions with isotropy

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