Sub-Riemannian geometry of parallelizable spheres

DOI10.4171/RMI/661MaRDI QIDQ643335zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Mauricio Godoy Molina, Irina Markina

Publication date 28 October 2011

Published in Revista Matemática Iberoamericana (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0901.1406, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.rmi/1312906786

zbMATH Keywords

Hopf bundleoctonionsparallelizable spheresquaternionssub-Riemannian geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General properties and structure of real Lie groups (22E15) CR manifolds (32V99) Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17) Sphere bundles and vector bundles in algebraic topology (55R25)

Abstract: The first aim of the present paper is to compare various sub-Riemannian structures over the three dimensional sphere $S^3$ originating from different constructions. Namely, we describe the sub-Riemannian geometry of $S^3$ arising through its right Lie group action over itself, the one inherited from the natural complex structure of the open unit ball in $com{p}^2$ and the geometry that appears when considering the Hopf map as a principal bundle. The main result of this comparison is that in fact those three structures coincide. In the second place, we present two bracket generating distributions for the seven dimensional sphere $S^7$ of step 2 with ranks 6 and 4. These yield to sub-Riemannian structures for $S^7$ that are not present in the literature until now. One of the distributions can be obtained by considering the CR geometry of $S^7$ inherited from the natural complex structure of the open unit ball in $com{p}^4$. The other one originates from the quaternionic analogous of the Hopf map.

Review text

The authors consider sub-Riemannian structures for the parallelizable spheres \(S^3\) and \(S^7\). For \(S^3\), they describe a geometry which can be obtained either from the Lie group structure of \(SU(2)\) (i.e., the unit ball of the quaternions \(\mathbb H\)), from the complex structure of the open unit ball in \(\mathbb{C}^2\), or the structure of a principal \(S^1\)-bundle over \(S^3\) coming from the Hopf map. For \(S^7\), they describe two different geometries. One comes from the CR geometry and has step 2 and rank 6. The other comes from the quaternionic analogues of the Hopf map and has step 2 and rank 4.

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