On the existence of a codimension 1 completely integrable totally geodesic distribution on a pseudo-Riemannian Heisenberg group

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2010.021MaRDI QIDQ970336zbMATHOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Wafaa Batat, Salima Rahmani

Publication date 17 May 2010

Published in SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1003.0189

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zbMATH Keywords

Heisenberg groupgeodesicspseudo-Riemannian metricscodimension 1 distributionscompletely integrable distributions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) Vector distributions (subbundles of the tangent bundles) (58A30)

Abstract: In this note we prove that the Heisenberg group with a left-invariant pseudo-Riemannian metric admits a completely integrable totally geodesic distribution of codimension 1. This is on the contrary to the Riemannian case, as it was proved by T. Hangan.

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