Spin(9) geometry of the octonionic Hopf fibration

DOI10.1007/S00031-013-9233-XMaRDI QIDQ367147zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Liviu Ornea, Maurizio Parton, Paolo Piccinni, Victor Vuletescu

Publication date 26 September 2013

Published in Transformation Groups (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1208.0899

zbMATH Keywords

\(\mathrm{Spin}(9)\)-structureoctonionic Hopf fibrationRiemannian manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(G)-structures (53C10) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Issues of holonomy in differential geometry (53C29)

Abstract: We deal with Riemannian properties of the octonionic Hopf fibration S^{15}-->S^8, in terms of the structure given by its symmetry group Spin(9). In particular, we show that any vertical vector field has at least one zero, thus reproving the non-existence of S^1 subfibrations. We then discuss Spin(9)-structures from a conformal viewpoint and determine the structure of compact locally conformally parallel Spin(9)-manifolds. Eventually, we give a list of examples of locally conformally parallel Spin(9)-manifolds.

Review text

The authors study the transitive action of \(\mathrm{Spin}(9)\) on the octonionic Hopf fibration \(S^{15}\to S^8\). They use it to prove that any global vector field on \(S^{15}\) tangent to the fibers of the fibration \(S^{15}\to S^8\) vanishes at some point. The authors also study 16-dimensional compact manifolds possessing a locally, non-globally, conformally parallel \(\mathrm{Spin}(9)\) metric. In particular, they prove that the Riemannian universal covering of such manifold is the Riemannian cone over \(S^{15}\) and they find a canonical \(8\)-dimensional foliation. Finally, they characterize compact Riemannian manifolds with locally, non-globally, conformally parallel \(\mathrm{Spin}(9)\) metric in terms of existence of a certain fibre bundle structure over a circle with special fibers and structure group. They also give some examples of such manifolds.

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