On automorphism groups of some types of generic distributions

2008/07/07 by Andreas Čap, Andreas Cap, Katharina Neusser · 1 citation
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Differential Geometry Research #Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows #Geometry and complex manifolds #math.DG #math.OC #msc:53A40 #msc:53B15 #msc:53C15 #msc:53C30 #msc:58A30 #msc:93B29

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.difgeo.2009.05.003

published as Differential Geom. Appl. 27 (2009) 769-779 · AMSLaTeX, 23 pages

arxiv created 2008/07/07 · openalex publication_date 2009/05/31 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

To certain types of generic distributions (subbundles in a tangent bundle) one can associate canonical Cartan connections. Many of these constructions fall into the class of parabolic geometries. The aim of this article is to show how strong restrictions on the possibles sizes of automorphism groups of such distributions can be deduced from the existence of canonical Cartan connections. This needs no information on how the Cartan connections are actually constructed and only very basic information on their properties. In particular, we discuss the examples of generic distributions of rank two in dimension five, rank three in dimension six, and rank four in dimension seven.

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