scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1066395

Synthetic treatment of fundamental manifolds in projective geometries (Grassmannians, Veronesians and their generalizations) (51M35) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30)

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Let \(P_n\) be an \(n\)-dimensional projective space and let further \(G(m, n)\) (\(G(n-m-1, n)\)) denote the Grassmann manifolds belonging to the set of \(m\)-dimensional subspaces \(p\) (\((n-m-1)\)-dimensional subspaces \(p^\ast\)) of \(P_n\). An open domain \(U\) of \(G(m,n)\) is said to be normalized if for any \(p \in U\) there corresponds a subspace \(p^\ast \in G(n-m-1, m)\) with \(p\cap p^\ast = \emptyset\). \(p^\ast\) is called the normalizing subspace for the subspace \(p\) and \((p, p^\ast)\) is called an \(m\)-pair. A normalization is defined by a normalizing mapping \(\nu: U \subset G(m, n) \rightarrow G(n-m-1, n)\). The authors show that the normalizing mapping \(\nu\) of a normalized domain \(U^\nu\subset G(m,n)\) uniquely determines a torsion-free affine connection on it. Besides other results the following one is given: If \(Q \subset P_n\) is a non-degenerate hyperquadric, then the set \(U\) of all \(m\)-dimensional subspaces \(p\) which are not tangent to \(Q\) can be normalized by assigning to each \(p \in U\) its totally polar subspace \(p^\ast\) with respect to \(Q\). In this case a Riemannian or a pseudo-Riemannian metric is determined on \(U\). For the entire collection see [Zbl 0867.00024].

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