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ESAIM: COCV
Volume 23, Number 4, October-December 2017
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Page(s) | 1751 - 1765 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/cocv/2016072 | |
Published online | 28 September 2017 |
On contact sub-pseudo-Riemannian isometries
1 Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Cardinal Wyszyński University, 01-938 Warszawa, Poland.
m.grochowski@uksw.edu.pl
2 Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Śniadeckich 8, 00-656 Warszawa, Poland.
w.krynski@impan.pl
Received: 22 October 2015
Revised: 14 September 2016
Accepted: 10 November 2016
We study isometries in contact sub-pseudo-Riemannian geometry. In particular we give an upper bound on the dimension of the isometry group of a general sub-pseudo-Riemannian manifold and prove that the maximal dimension is attained for the left invariant structures on the Heisenberg group.
Mathematics Subject Classification: 53C17 / 34H05
Key words: Contact structure / sub-Riemannian geometry / sub-Lorentzian geometry / Heisenberg group / isometry group / control-affine systems
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