Global smooth fibrations of ℝ3 by oriented lines
Global smooth fibrations of ℝ3 by oriented lines
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ℝ3 通过定向线的全局平滑纤维
DOI:
10.1112/blms/bdn115
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发表时间:
2009
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0.9
通讯作者:
M. Salvai
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作者:
M. Salvai
A smooth fibration of ℝ3 by oriented lines is given by a smooth unit vector field V on ℝ3 all of whose integral curves are straight lines. Such a fibration is said to be nondegenerate if dV vanishes only in the direction of V. Let ℒ be the space of oriented lines of ℝ3 endowed with its canonical pseudo‐Riemannian neutral metric. We characterize the nondegenerate smooth fibrations of ℝ3 by oriented lines as the closed (in the relative topology) definite connected surfaces in ℒ. In particular, local conditions on ℒ imply the existence of a global fibration. Besides, for any such fibration the base space is diffeomorphic to the open disc and the directions of the fibers form an open convex set of the two‐sphere. We characterize as well, in a similar way, the smooth (possibly degenerate) fibrations.