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Isometries of subRiemannian manifolds

Alessandro Ottazzi (in collaboration with Enrico Le Donne) Alba, 18 giugno 2013

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Plan of the talk

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Notation and Setting

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State of the art

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Main results

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Open questions

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subRiemannian manifolds

A subRiemannian structure is a triple (M, H, g), where M is a differentiable and connected manifold of dimension n; H ⊆ TM is a subbundle of the tangent bundle TM with constant rank m ≤ n, that depends smoothly on p ∈ M and that satisfies H¨

• rmander condition:

span{[X1, [. . . , [Xi−1, Xi] . . . ]](p) | Xi ∈ Γ(H)]} = TpM for every p ∈ M. We call H the horizontal bundle. g is a Riemannian metric on H. If n = m, then M is a Riemannian manifold.

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Regular subRiemannian manifolds

H1 := H and Hi+1 := Hi + [Hi, H], where Hi+1(p) := {X1(p) + [X2, X3](p) | X1(p), X2(p) ∈ Hi(p), X3(p) ∈ H(p)} We obtain a sequence H = H1 ⊆ H2 ⊆ · · · ⊆ Hs = TM We say that (M, H, g) is regular if the dimension of Hi(p) does not depend on p, for every i = 1, . . . , s.

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Carnot-Carath´ eodory distance

A smooth curve γ : [0, 1] → M is horizontal if γ′(t) ∈ H(γ(t)) for every t ∈ [0, 1]. We define l(γ) =

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0 gγ(t)(γ′(t), γ′(t))1/2dt

the length of γ. For every p, q ∈ M d(p, q) = inf{l(γ) | γ(0) = p, γ(1) = q, γ horizontal} is a distance on M.

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Left invariant subRiemannian manifolds

If M = G, we have Lpq = pq, and (Lp)∗q : TqG → TpqG. Let g = LieG. Fix V ⊆ g such that g = span{[e1, [e2, . . . , [ei−1, ei]]] | ei ∈ V} Let ·, · be a scalar product on V. Then H(p) := (Lp)∗eV gp(v1, v2) := (Lp−1)∗pv1, (Lp−1)∗pv2 define a left-invariant subRiemannian structure (G, H, g).

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Example

g = span{e1, e2, e3} such that [e1, e2] = e3. exp g =Heisenberg group. subRiemannian structures: V1 = span{e1, e2}, V2 = span{e3}

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V = span{e1, e2, e3} g = V1 + · · · + Vs s.t. [V1, Vi] = Vi+1, i = 1, . . . , s − 1, Vs ⊂ z(g). g is a nilpotent and stratified Lie algebra and exp g = G with C-C distance d is called a Carnot group.

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subRiemannian isometries

A mapping f : U → V with U, V ⊆ M open subsets is an isometry if d(f(p), f(q)) = d(p, q) for every p, q ∈ U. Main questions: Smoothness of f. Characterize isometries.

Example

If (M, d) = (Rn, dE), then each isometry on U ⊆ Rn is the restriction to U of {translation × O(n)}

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State of the art

Let G be a Carnot group.

Theorem (Strichartz 1986, J. Differential Geom.)

Suppose Lie G = g satisfies the strong bracket generating property. Let f : U ⊆ G → G be a smooth isometry from the open and connected subset U into G. If f(e) = e, then f = α|U, where α ∈ Aut G. We say that g satisfies the s.b.g.p. if ∀X ∈ V1 one has [X, V1] + V1 = g (⇒ g is M´ etivi´ er).

Theorem (Hamenst¨ adt 1990, J. Differential Geom.-Kishimoto 2003, J. Math. Kyoto Univ.)

If f : G → G is an isometry such that f(e) = e, then f ∈ Aut G.

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Main results

Theorem (Le Donne, Ottazzi, 2013)

Let f : U ⊆ G → G be an isometry, with U open. If f(e) = e, then f = α|U, where α ∈ Aut G.

Theorem (Le Donne, Ottazzi, 2013)

Let (G/H, H, g) be a homogeneous subRiemannian manifold such that g is G-invariant. Let f : G/H → G/H be an isometry. Then f is smooth. Moreover, f is uniquely defined by f(o) and df(o)|H(o).

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Remarks

The statements remain true in the subFinsler setting. Namely, with · instead of ·, ·. If G/H = G, it is not true in general that isometries are “affine” if G is not nilpotent and stratified. For example, in S3 with the Euclidean distance the inversion map p → p−1 is an isometry, but not a group isomorphism.

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Proofs

Regularity of isometries: Capogna, Cowling, 2006, Duke Math. J. ⇒ (local) isometries on Carnot groups are smooth. Montgomery Zipping theory on locally compact groups ⇒ global isometries on homogeneous manifolds are smooth. Studying the action of an isometry on Killing vector fields: Global vector fields. Unique extension of local vector fields in the Carnot group case (Tanaka prolongation theory).

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Remark

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X locally compact, connected metric space, with finite dimension;

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Iso(X , d) acts transitively on X . ⇒ X is a differential manifold and Iso(X , d) is a Lie group. (Montgomery-Zippin, 1952)

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d is an intrinsic distance. ⇒ X is a homogeneous subFinsler manifold (Berestovski˘ ı, 1989).

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∃λ > 1 s.t. (X , d) and (X , λd) are isometric. ⇒ X is a nilpotent and stratified Lie group (Mitchell 1985 - Margulis, Mostow 1995).

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Open problems

Regularity of isometries in general subRiemannian manifolds (Capogna and Le Donne solved this). Extend our results to the general setting of subRiemannian manifolds (with Capogna and Le Donne). Explicit characterization of isometries, e.g. on 3-dimensional Lie groups (with Le Donne).

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