Fiberwise homogeneous geodesic foliations of hyperbolic and Euclidean 3-spaces

DOI10.2140/AGT.2015.15.3059zbMATH Open1330.53035arXiv1407.4550OpenAlexW3100904189MaRDI QIDQ894969FDOQ894969

Authors: Haggai Nuchi 

Publication date: 25 November 2015

Published in: Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A fibration of a Riemannian manifold is fiberwise homogeneous if there are isometries of the manifold onto itself, taking any given fiber to any other one, and preserving fibers. Examples are fibrations of Euclidean n-space by parallel n-planes, and the Hopf fibrations of the round n-sphere by great n-spheres. In this paper, we describe all the fiberwise homogeneous fibrations of Euclidean and hyperbolic 3-space by geodesics. Our main result is that, up to fiber-preserving isometries, there is precisely a one-parameter family of such fibrations of Euclidean 3-space, and a two-parameter family in hyperbolic 3-space. By contrast, we show in another paper that the only fiberwise homogeneous fibrations of the round 3-sphere by geodesics (great circles) are the Hopf fibrations. More generally, we show in that same paper that the Hopf fibrations in all dimensions are characterized, among fibrations of round spheres by smooth subspheres, by their fiberwise homogeneity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.4550

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zbMATH Keywords

geodesicfoliationhyperbolichomogeneousEuclidean3-space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foliations (differential geometric aspects) (53C12) Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60) Noncompact Lie groups of transformations (57S20) Foliations in differential topology; geometric theory (57R30)

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