TY - JOUR
T1 - Contact integral geometry and the Heisenberg algebra
AU - Faifman, Dmitry
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Generalizing Weyl’s tube formula and building on Chern’s work, Alesker reinterpreted the Lipschitz–Killing curvature integrals as a family of valuations (finitely additive measures with good analytic properties), attached canonically to any Riemannian manifold, which is universal with respect to isometric embeddings. We uncover a similar structure for contact manifolds. Namely, we show that a contact manifold admits a canonical family of generalized valuations, which are universal under contact embeddings. Those valuations assign numerical invariants to even-dimensional submanifolds, which in a certain sense measure the curvature at points of tangency to the contact structure. Moreover, these valuations generalize to the class of manifolds equipped with the structure of a Heisenberg algebra on their cotangent bundle. Pursuing the analogy with Euclidean integral geometry, we construct symplectic-invariant distributions on Grassmannians to produce Crofton formulas on the contact sphere. Using closely related distributions, we obtain Crofton formulas also in the linear symplectic space.
AB - Generalizing Weyl’s tube formula and building on Chern’s work, Alesker reinterpreted the Lipschitz–Killing curvature integrals as a family of valuations (finitely additive measures with good analytic properties), attached canonically to any Riemannian manifold, which is universal with respect to isometric embeddings. We uncover a similar structure for contact manifolds. Namely, we show that a contact manifold admits a canonical family of generalized valuations, which are universal under contact embeddings. Those valuations assign numerical invariants to even-dimensional submanifolds, which in a certain sense measure the curvature at points of tangency to the contact structure. Moreover, these valuations generalize to the class of manifolds equipped with the structure of a Heisenberg algebra on their cotangent bundle. Pursuing the analogy with Euclidean integral geometry, we construct symplectic-invariant distributions on Grassmannians to produce Crofton formulas on the contact sphere. Using closely related distributions, we obtain Crofton formulas also in the linear symplectic space.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85076395811&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.2140/gt.2019.23.3041
DO - 10.2140/gt.2019.23.3041
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AN - SCOPUS:85076395811
SN - 1465-3060
VL - 23
SP - 3041
EP - 3110
JO - Geometry and Topology
JF - Geometry and Topology
IS - 6
ER -