Sub-Riemannian geometry of parallelizable spheres

DOI10.4171/RMI/661zbMATH Open1228.53043arXiv0901.1406WikidataQ115211871 ScholiaQ115211871MaRDI QIDQ643335FDOQ643335

Authors: Mauricio Godoy Molina, Irina Markina 

Publication date: 28 October 2011

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

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.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0901.1406

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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)

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