The tangent groupoid of a Heisenberg manifold

Details The tangent groupoid of a Heisenberg manifold The tangent groupoid of a Heisenberg manifold

2004-04-07

arxiv.org/abs/math/0404174v7

Pacific J. Math. 227 (2006) 151-175

Mathematics

Differential Geometry

v7: final version; to appear in Pacific Math. J.; 18 pages

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As a step toward proving an index theorem for hypoelliptic operators Heisenberg manifolds, including those on CR and contact manifolds, we construct an analogue for Heisenberg manifolds of Connes' tangent groupoid of a manifold $M$. As it is well known for a Heisenberg manifold $(M,H)$ the relevant notion of tangent is rather that of Lie group bundle of graded 2-step nilpotent Lie groups $GM$. We then construct the tangent groupoid of $(M,H)$ as a differentiable groupoid $\cG_{H} M$ encoding the smooth deformation of $M\times M$ to $GM$. In this construction a crucial use is made of a refined notion of privileged coordinates and of a tangent approximation result for Heisenberg diffeomorphisms.

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