The Fefferman Metric for Twistor CR Manifolds and Conformal Geodesics in Dimension Three

We give an explicit description of the Fefferman metric for twistor CR manifolds in terms of Riemannian structures on the base conformal 3-manifolds. As an application, we prove that chains and null chains on twistor CR manifolds project to conformal geodesics, and that any conformal geodesic has li...

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Published in:Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications
Date:2025
Main Author: Marugame, Taiji
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Language:English
Published: Інститут математики НАН України 2025
Online Access:https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/214194
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description We give an explicit description of the Fefferman metric for twistor CR manifolds in terms of Riemannian structures on the base conformal 3-manifolds. As an application, we prove that chains and null chains on twistor CR manifolds project to conformal geodesics, and that any conformal geodesic has lifts both to a chain and a null chain. By using this correspondence, we give a variational characterization of conformal geodesics in dimension three, which involves the total torsion functional.
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The Fefferman Metric for Twistor CR Manifolds and Conformal Geodesics in Dimension Three. Taiji Marugame. SIGMA 21 (2025), 090, 26 pages
1815-0659
2020 Mathematics Subject Classification: 53B20; 32V05; 53C18
arXiv:2411.18961
https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/214194
https://doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2025.090
We give an explicit description of the Fefferman metric for twistor CR manifolds in terms of Riemannian structures on the base conformal 3-manifolds. As an application, we prove that chains and null chains on twistor CR manifolds project to conformal geodesics, and that any conformal geodesic has lifts both to a chain and a null chain. By using this correspondence, we give a variational characterization of conformal geodesics in dimension three, which involves the total torsion functional.
The author thanks the anonymous referees for their comments. This work was partially supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 22K13922.
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Інститут математики НАН України
Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications
The Fefferman Metric for Twistor CR Manifolds and Conformal Geodesics in Dimension Three
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spellingShingle The Fefferman Metric for Twistor CR Manifolds and Conformal Geodesics in Dimension Three
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title The Fefferman Metric for Twistor CR Manifolds and Conformal Geodesics in Dimension Three
title_full The Fefferman Metric for Twistor CR Manifolds and Conformal Geodesics in Dimension Three
title_fullStr The Fefferman Metric for Twistor CR Manifolds and Conformal Geodesics in Dimension Three
title_full_unstemmed The Fefferman Metric for Twistor CR Manifolds and Conformal Geodesics in Dimension Three
title_short The Fefferman Metric for Twistor CR Manifolds and Conformal Geodesics in Dimension Three
title_sort fefferman metric for twistor cr manifolds and conformal geodesics in dimension three
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