Distinguished dimensions for special Riemannian geometries

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2008.03.012MaRDI QIDQ950265zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Pawel Nurowski

Publication date 22 October 2008

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0601020

zbMATH Keywords

characteristic connectionisoparametric hypersurfacesoctonionsskew symmetric torsionmagic square of Lie algebras

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(G)-structures (53C10) Other special differential geometries (53A40) Other connections (53B15)

Abstract: The paper is based on relations between a ternary symmetric form defining the SO(3) geometry in dimension five and Cartan's works on isoparametric hypersurfaces in spheres. As observed by Bryant such a ternary form exists only in dimensions n_k=3k+2, where k=1,2,4,8. In these dimensions it reduces the orthogonal group to the subgroups H_ksubset SO(n_k), with H_1=SO(3), H_2=SU(3), H_4=Sp(3) and H_8=F_4. This enables studies of special Riemannian geometries with structure groups H_k in dimensions n_k. The neccessary and sufficient conditions for the H_k geometries to admit the characteristic connection are given. As an illustration nontrivial examples of SU(3) geometries in dimension 8 admitting characteristic connection are provided. Among them there are examples having nonvanishing torsion and satisfying Einstein equations with respect to either the Levi-Civita or the characteristic connections.

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• Distorted Riemannian space and technique of differential geometry
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