Riemannian and sub-Riemannian structures on a cotangent bundle of Heisenberg group

Abstract

In this paper we give a classification of left invariant sub-Riemannian structures on cotangent bundle of 2n + 1 dimensional Heisenberg group T∗ H2n+1. We show that the sub-Riemannian metric is tamed by the corresponding Riemannian metric on T∗ H2n+1. We also describe Riemannian and sub-Riemannian geodesics on T∗ H2n+1.