Lie contact structures and normal Cartan connections

DOI10.2996/KMJ/1138039338MaRDI QIDQ808441zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Reiko Miyaoka

Publication date 1991

Published in Kodai Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2996/kmj/1138039338

zbMATH Keywords

Cartan connectionLie contact structureTanaka connection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Connections (general theory) (53C05) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15)

Review text

Let N be a (2n-1)-dimensional differentiable manifold. A Lie contact structure on N is defined to be a certain special reduction of the linear frame bundle over N [\textit{H. Sato} and \textit{K. Yamaguchi}, Geometry of manifolds, Coll. Pap. 35th Symp. Differ. Geom., Matsumoto/Japan 1988, Perspect. Math. 8, 191-238 (1989; Zbl 0705.53019)]. One of the important examples of such structures is that given on the unit tangent bundle \(T_ 1M\) of a Riemannian manifold M. Following the connection theory by \textit{N. Tanaka} [Hokkaido Math. J. 8, 23-84 (1979; Zbl 0409.17013)], the author constructs a normal Cartan connection (so-called Tanaka connection) corresponding to a Lie contact structure. Next, he proves that the normal connection determines the structure completely.

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