2023 №54(1)

On the geometry of sub-Riemannian manifolds equipped with a canonical quarter-symmetric connection

DOI

10.5922/0321-4796-2023-54-1-7

Pages

64-77

Abstract

In this article, a sub-Riemannian manifold of contact type is under­stood as a Riemannian manifold equipped with a regular distribution of codimension-one and by a unit structure vector field orthogonal to this distribution. This vector field is called a structural. On a sub-Riemannian manifold of contact type, a quarter-symmetric connection is defined, which is associated with an endomorphism that preserves the distribution of the sub-Riemannian manifold. It is proved that if the connection under study is metric, then the endomorphism associated to it is uniquely de­fined. The structure of the associated endomorphism is found. In the case when the structure vector field is a field of infinitesimal isometries, the quarter-symmetric connection is called the canonical N-connection. An expression is found for the curvature tensor of the canonical N-connection in terms of the Riemann curvature tensor. The properties of the Schouten curvature tensor are investigated, which provide, in particular, the neces­sary symmetries of the curvature tensor of an N-connection for its sec­tional curvature to be well-defined. A relation between the sectional cur­vature of the canonical N-connection and the sectional curvature of the Levi-Civita connection is found. Necessary and sufficient conditions are found under which the sectional curvature of the N-connection and the sectional curvature of the Levi-Civita connection coincide.

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