On the Cauchy-Riemann geometry of transversal curves in the 3-sphere

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Authors Filippo Salis, Emilio Musso, Lorenzo Nicolodi

Publication date 5 October 2021

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.11350, http://jmage.ilt.kharkov.ua/abstract.php?uid=jm16-0312e

zbMATH Keywords

Bennequin numbercontact geometryCR geometry of 3-sphereCR invariants of transversal knotscritical knotsself-linking numberstrain functional for transversal curvestransversal curves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Knot theory (57K10)

Abstract: Let $mathrm{S}^3$ be the unit sphere of $mathbb{C}^2$ with its standard Cauchy-Riemann (CR) structure. This paper investigates the CR geometry of curves in $mathrm{S}^3$ which are transversal to the contact distribution, using the local CR invariants of $mathrm{S}^3$. More specifically, the focus is on the CR geometry of transversal knots. Four global invariants of transversal knots are considered: the phase anomaly, the CR spin, the Maslov index, and the CR self-linking number. The interplay between these invariants and the Bennequin number of a knot are discussed. Next, the simplest CR invariant variational problem for generic transversal curves is considered and its closed critical curves are studied.

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