Canonical connection on contact manifolds

DOI10.1007/978-4-431-55215-4_5MaRDI QIDQ5258495zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yong-Geun Oh, Rui Wang

Publication date 23 June 2015

Published in Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.4817

zbMATH Keywords

canonical affine connectioncontact manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear and affine connections (53B05) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10)

Abstract: We introduce a canonical affine connection on the contact manifold $(Q,xi)$, which is associated to each contact triad $(Q,lambda,J)$ where $lambda$ is a contact form and $J:xioxi$ is an endomorphism with $J^2=-id$ compatible to $dlambda$. We call it the emph{contact triad connection} of $(Q,lambda,J)$ and prove its existence and uniqueness. The connection is canonical in that the pull-back connection $ph{i}^{\ast }abla$ of a triad connection $abla$ becomes the triad connection of the pull-back triad $(Q,ph{i}^{\ast }lambda,ph{i}^{\ast }J)$ for any diffeomorphism $phi:QoQ$ satisfying $ph{i}^{\ast }lambda=lambda$ (sometimes called a strict contact diffeomorphism). It also preserves both the triad metric ${\displaystyle }$ g_{(lambda,J)} = dlambda(cdot, Jcdot) + lambda otimes lambda ${\displaystyle }$ and $J$ regarded as an endomorphism on $TQ=mathbbR{X}_{l}ambdaoplusxi$, and is characterized by its torsion properties and the requirement that the contact form $lambda$ be holomorphic in the $CR$-sense. In particular, the connection restricts to a Hermitian connection $abl{a}^{p}i$ on the Hermitian vector bundle $(xi,J,g_{x}i)$ with $g_{x}i=dlambda(cdot,Jcdot){|}_{xi}$, which we call the emph{contact Hermitian connection} of $(xi,J,g_{x}i)$. These connections greatly simplify tensorial calculations in the sequels cite{oh-wang1}, cite{oh-wang2} performed in the authors' analytic study of the map $w$, called contact instantons, which satisfy the nonlinear elliptic system of equations $overline{partial}^{p}iw=0,,d(w^{\ast }lambdacircj)=0$ in the contact triad $(Q,lambda,J)$.

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