Sub-Riemannian geometry of parallelizable spheres

Details Sub-Riemannian geometry of parallelizable spheres Sub-Riemannian geometry of parallelizable spheres

2009-01-11

arxiv.org/abs/0901.1406v1

Mathematics

Differential Geometry

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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 $\comp^2$ 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 $\comp^4$. The other one originates from the quaternionic analogous of the Hopf map.

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