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Calibrated geodesic foliations of the hyperbolic space

Differential Geometry 2014-11-26 v1

Abstract

Let H be the hyperbolic space of dimension n+1. A geodesic foliation of H is given by a smooth unit vector field on H all of whose integral curves are geodesics. Each geodesic foliation of H determines an n-dimensional submanifold M of the 2n-dimensional manifold L of all the oriented geodesics of H (up to orientation preserving reparametrizations). The space L has a canonical split semi-Riemannian metric induced by the Killing form of the isometry group of H. Using a split special Lagrangian calibration, we study the volume maximization problem for a certain class of geometrically distinguished geodesic foliations, whose corresponding submanifolds of L are space-like.

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@article{arxiv.1411.6700,
  title  = {Calibrated geodesic foliations of the hyperbolic space},
  author = {Yamile Godoy and Marcos Salvai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.6700},
  year   = {2014}
}