TY - JOUR
T1 - H-type foliations
AU - Baudoin, Fabrice
AU - Grong, Erlend
AU - Rizzi, Luca
AU - Vega-Molino, Gianmarco
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022
PY - 2022/12
Y1 - 2022/12
N2 - With a view toward sub-Riemannian geometry, we introduce and study H-type foliations. These structures are natural generalizations of K-contact geometries which encompass as special cases K-contact manifolds, twistor spaces, 3K-contact manifolds and H-type groups. Under an horizontal Ricci curvature lower bound on these structures, we prove a sub-Riemannian diameter upper bounds and first eigenvalue estimates for the sub-Laplacian. Then, using a result by Moroianu-Semmelmann [38], we classify the H-type foliations that carry a parallel horizontal Clifford structure. Finally, we prove an horizontal Einstein property and compute the horizontal Ricci curvature of these spaces in codimension more than 2.
AB - With a view toward sub-Riemannian geometry, we introduce and study H-type foliations. These structures are natural generalizations of K-contact geometries which encompass as special cases K-contact manifolds, twistor spaces, 3K-contact manifolds and H-type groups. Under an horizontal Ricci curvature lower bound on these structures, we prove a sub-Riemannian diameter upper bounds and first eigenvalue estimates for the sub-Laplacian. Then, using a result by Moroianu-Semmelmann [38], we classify the H-type foliations that carry a parallel horizontal Clifford structure. Finally, we prove an horizontal Einstein property and compute the horizontal Ricci curvature of these spaces in codimension more than 2.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.difgeo.2022.101952
DO - 10.1016/j.difgeo.2022.101952
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85137794274
SN - 0926-2245
VL - 85
JO - Differential Geometry and its Application
JF - Differential Geometry and its Application
M1 - 101952
ER -