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

DOI10.1090/TRAN/7277MaRDI QIDQ4608784zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

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)

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

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)

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.

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