ODD Metrics

arXiv2211.12088MaRDI QIDQ6418084FDOQ6418084

Lukas Braun

Publication date: 22 November 2022

Abstract: We introduce the concept of ODD ('$mathbfO$rthogonally $mathbfD$egenerating on a $mathbfD$ivisor') Riemannian metrics on real analytic manifolds $M$. These semipositive symmetric $2$-tensors may degenerate on a finite collection of submanifolds, while their restrictions to these submanifolds satisfy the inductive compatibility criterion to be an ODD metric again. In this first in a series of articles on these metrics, we show that they satisfy basic properties that hold for Riemannian metrics. For example, we introduce orthonormal frames, the lowering and raising of indices, ODD volume forms and the Levi-Civita connection. We finally show that an ODD metric induces a metric space structure on $M$ and that at least at general points of the degeneracy locus $mathcalD$, ODD vector fields are integrable and ODD geodesics exist and are unique.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kähler manifolds (32Q15) Local Riemannian geometry (53B20) Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25)

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