The dancing metric, {G}_2-symmetry and projective rolling

DOI10.1090/TRAN/7277zbMATH Open1387.53021arXiv1506.00104OpenAlexW2406707337WikidataQ126207993 ScholiaQ126207993MaRDI QIDQ4608784FDOQ4608784

Authors: Gil Bor, Pawel Nurowski, Luis Hernández Lamoneda 

Publication date: 28 March 2018

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

Abstract: The "dancing metric" is a pseudo-riemannian metric $pmbg$ of signature $(2,2)$ on the space $M^4$ of non-incident point-line pairs in the real projective plane $mathbb{RP}^2$. The null-curves of $(M^4,pmbg)$ are given by the "dancing condition": the point is moving towards a point on the line, about which the line is turning. We establish a dictionary between classical projective geometry (incidence, cross ratio, projective duality, projective invariants of plane curves...) and pseudo-riemannian 4-dimensional conformal geometry (null-curves and geodesics, parallel transport, self-dual null 2-planes, the Weyl curvature,...). There is also an unexpected bonus: by applying a twistor construction to $(M^4,pmbg)$, a $mathrm{G}_2$-symmetry emerges, hidden deep in classical projective geometry. To uncover this symmetry, one needs to refine the "dancing condition" by a higher-order condition, expressed in terms of the osculating conic along a plane curve. The outcome is a correspondence between curves in the projective plane and its dual, a projective geometry analog of the more familiar "rolling without slipping and twisting" for a pair of riemannian surfaces.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.00104

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zbMATH Keywords

projective differential geometryconformal pseudo-Riemannian geometrydistributions on 5-manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential invariants (local theory), geometric objects (53A55) Other special differential geometries (53A40) Hyper-Kähler and quaternionic Kähler geometry, ``special geometry (53C26) Projective differential geometry (53A20)

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