Moduli of triangles in the Heisenberg group

DOI10.1007/S10711-012-9701-9MaRDI QIDQ691091zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Chris Cappadocia, Andrew Nicas

Publication date 29 November 2012

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10711-012-9701-9

zbMATH Keywords

angle deficit formulaCarnot-Carathéodory geometrycoarse moduli spacefine moduli spaceHeisenberg grouptriangle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nilpotent and solvable Lie groups (22E25) Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17) Noncompact Lie groups of transformations (57S20) Moduli problems for differential geometric structures (58D27)

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• An introduction to the Heisenberg group and the sub-Riemannian isoperimetric problem
• Characterisation of the sub-Riemannian isometry groups of theH-type groups
• Equivariant bundles
• Geometric mechanics on the Heisenberg group
• On Carnot-Caratheodory metrics
• The complex cross ratio on the Heisenberg group

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