Non-existence of orthogonal coordinates on the complex and quaternionic projective spaces

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2020.103770zbMATH1466.53019OpenAlexW2959442725MaRDI QIDQ778995FDOQ778995

Authors Paul Gauduchon, Andrei Moroianu

Publication date 21 July 2020

Published in Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.05882

zbMATH Keywords

complex projective spaceRiemannian metricquaternionic projective spaceorthogonal coordinates

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local Riemannian geometry (53B20)

Abstract: DeTurck and Yang have shown that in the neighbourhood of every point of a $3$-dimensional Riemannian manifold, there exists a system of orthogonal coordinates (that is, whith respect to which the metric has diagonal form). We show that this property does not generalize to higher dimensions. In particular, the complex projective spaces $mathbb{CP}^m$ and the quaternionic projective spaces $mathbb{HP}^q$, endowed with their canonical metrics, do not have local systems of orthogonal coordinates for $m,qge2$.

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