Sub-Riemannian geometry of parallelizable spheres

DOI10.4171/RMI/661MaRDI QIDQ643335zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Mauricio Godoy Molina, Irina Markina

Publication date 28 October 2011

Published in Revista Matemática Iberoamericana (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0901.1406, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.rmi/1312906786

zbMATH Keywords

sub-Riemannian geometryoctonionsquaternionsHopf bundleparallelizable spheres

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17) General properties and structure of real Lie groups (22E15) Sphere bundles and vector bundles in algebraic topology (55R25) CR manifolds (32V99)

Abstract: The first aim of the present paper is to compare various sub-Riemannian structures over the three dimensional sphere $S^3$ originating from different constructions. Namely, we describe the sub-Riemannian geometry of $S^3$ arising through its right Lie group action over itself, the one inherited from the natural complex structure of the open unit ball in $com{p}^2$ and the geometry that appears when considering the Hopf map as a principal bundle. The main result of this comparison is that in fact those three structures coincide. In the second place, we present two bracket generating distributions for the seven dimensional sphere $S^7$ of step 2 with ranks 6 and 4. These yield to sub-Riemannian structures for $S^7$ that are not present in the literature until now. One of the distributions can be obtained by considering the CR geometry of $S^7$ inherited from the natural complex structure of the open unit ball in $com{p}^4$. The other one originates from the quaternionic analogous of the Hopf map.

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