Helical CR structures and sub-Riemannian geodesics

DOI10.1080/17476930902763801zbMATH Open1166.53021arXiv0802.1730OpenAlexW1973607687WikidataQ115295004 ScholiaQ115295004MaRDI QIDQ3625383FDOQ3625383

Authors: John P. D'Angelo, Jeremy T. Tyson 

Publication date: 12 May 2009

Published in: Complex Variables and Elliptic Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A helical CR structure is a decomposition of a real Euclidean space into an even-dimensional horizontal subspace and its orthogonal vertical complement, together with an almost complex structure on the horizontal space and a marked vector in the vertical space. We prove an equivalence between such structures and step two Carnot groups equipped with a distinguished normal geodesic, and also between such structures and smooth real curves whose derivatives have constant Euclidean norm. As a consequence, we relate step two Carnot groups equipped with sub-Riemannian geodesics with this family of curves. The restriction to the unit circle of certain planar homogeneous polynomial mappings gives an instructive class of examples. We describe these examples in detail.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0802.1730

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zbMATH Keywords

Carnot groupproper holomorphic mappinghigher curvaturehelical CR structurehomogeneous polynormial

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17)

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