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A co-dimensional 3 sub-Riemannian structure on Gromoll-Meyer exotic sphere

Differential Geometry 2016-08-09 v1

Abstract

We construct a co-dimension 33 completely non-holonomic sub-bundle on the Gromoll-Meyer exotic 77 sphere based on its realization as a base space of a Sp(2)-principal bundle with the structure group Sp(1). The same method is valid for constructing a co-dimension 3 completely non-holonomic sub-bundle on the standard 7 sphere (or more general on a 4n+34n+3 dimensional standard sphere). In the latter case such a construction based on the Hopf bundle is well-known. Our method provides an alternated simple proof for the standard sphere S7\mathbb{S}^7.

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@article{arxiv.1608.02444,
  title  = {A co-dimensional 3 sub-Riemannian structure on Gromoll-Meyer exotic sphere},
  author = {Wolfram Bauer and Kenro Furutani and Chisato Iwasaki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.02444},
  year   = {2016}
}

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21 pages

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