Mathematics – Differential Geometry
Scientific paper
2007-08-07
Mathematics
Differential Geometry
31 pages, some technical errors are corrected
Scientific paper
Sub-Riemannian Geometry is proved to play an important role in many applications, e.g., Mathematical Physics and Control Theory. The simplest example of sub-Riemannian structure is provided by the 3-D Heisenberg group. Sub-Riemannian Geometry enjoys major differences from the Riemannian being a generalisation of the latter at the same time, e.g., geodesics are not unique and may be singular, the Hausdorff dimension is larger than the manifold topological dimension. There exists a large amount of literature developing sub-Riemannian Geometry. However, very few is known about its natural extension to pseudo-Riemannian analogues. It is natural to begin such a study with some low-dimensional manifolds. Based on ideas from sub-Riemannian geometry we develop sub-Lorentzian geometry over the classical 3-D anti-de Sitter space. Two different distributions of the tangent bundle of anti-de Sitter space yield two different geometries: sub-Lorentzian and sub-Riemannian. It is shown that the set of timelike and spacelike `horizontal' curves is non-empty and we study the problem of horizontal connectivity in anti-de Sitter space. We also use Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalisms for both sub-Lorentzian and sub-Riemannian geometries to find geodesics.
Chang Der-Chen
Markina Irina
Vasil'ev Alexander
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