Transverse curves and chain curvature in the Heisenberg group |
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Authors: | Robert R Miner |
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Institution: | (1) Geometry Center, University of Minnesota, 207 Church St., 55455 SE. Minneapolis, MN |
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Abstract: | A chain is the intersection of a complex totally geodesic subspace in complex hyperbolic 2-space with the boundary. The boundary
admits a canonical contact structure, and chains are distiguished curves transverse to this structure. The space of chains
is analyzed both as a quotient of the contact bundle, and as a subset of ℂP2. The space of chains admits a canonical, indefinite Hermitian metric, and curves in the space of chains with null tangent
vectors are shown to correspond to a path of chains tangent to a curve in the boundary transverse to the contact structure.
A family of local differential chain curvature operators are introduced which exactly characterize when a transverse curve
is a chain. In particular, operators that are invariant under the stabilizer of a point in the interior of complex hyperbolic
space, or a point on the boundary, are developed in detail. Finally, these chain curvature operators are used to prove a generalization
of Louiville's theorem: a sufficiently smooth mapping from the boundary of complex hyperbolic 2-space to itself which preserves
chains must be the restriction of a global automorphism. |
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Keywords: | Math Subject Classifications" target="_blank">Math Subject Classifications 51M10 53B35 30C65 |
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