Insight in the Rumin Cohomology and Orientability Properties of the Heisenberg Group

arXiv1910.01164MaRDI QIDQ6326433FDOQ6326433

Authors: Giovanni Canarecci 

Publication date: 2 October 2019

Abstract: The purpose of this study is to analyse two related topics: the Rumin cohomology and the $mathbbH$-orientability in the Heisenberg group $mathbb{H}^n$. In the first three chapters we carefully describe the Rumin cohomology with particular emphasis at the second order differential operator $D$, giving examples in the cases $n=1$ and $n=2$. We also show the commutation between all Rumin differential operators and the pullback by a contact map and, more generally, describe pushforward and pullback explicitly in different situations. Differential forms can be used to define the notion of orientability; indeed in the fourth chapter we define the $mathbbH$-orientability for $mathbbH$-regular surfaces and we prove that $mathbbH$-orientability implies standard orientability, while the opposite is not always true. Finally we show that, up to one point, a M"obius strip in $mathbb{H}^1$ is a $mathbbH$-regular surface and we use this fact to prove that there exist $mathbbH$-regular non-$mathbbH$-orientable surfaces, at least in the case $n=1$. This opens the possibility for an analysis of Heisenberg currents mod $2$.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Non-Euclidean differential geometry (53A35)

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