Local Invariants and Geometry of the sub-Laplacian on H-type Foliations

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Authors: Wolfram Bauer, Irina Markina, Abdellah Laaroussi, Gianmarco Molino 

Publication date: 5 September 2022

Abstract: $H$-type foliations $(mathbbM,mathcalH,g_{mathcalH})$ are studied in the framework of sub-Riemannian geometry with bracket generating distribution defined as the bundle transversal to the fibers. Equipping $mathbbM$ with the Bott connection we consider the scalar horizontal curvature $kapp{a}_{mathcalH}$ as well as a new local invariant $a{u}_{mathcalV}$ induced from the vertical distribution. We extend recent results on the small-time asymptotics of the sub-Riemannanian heat kernel on quaternion-contact (qc-)manifolds due to A. Laaroussi and we express the second heat invariant in sub-Riemannian geometry as a linear combination of $kapp{a}_{mathcalH}$ and $a{u}_{mathcalV}$. The use of an analog to normal coordinates in Riemannian geometry that are well-adapted to the geometric structure of $H$-type foliations allows us to consider the pull-back of Kor'{a}nyi balls to $mathbbM$. We explicitly obtain the first three terms in the asymptotic expansion of their Popp volume for small radii. Finally, we address the question of when $mathbbM$ is locally isometric as a sub-Riemannian manifold to its $H$-type tangent group.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17) Heat and other parabolic equation methods for PDEs on manifolds (58J35)

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