Canonical fibrations of contact metric $(\kappa ,\mu )$-spaces

Abstract

We present a classification of the complete, simply connected, contact metric $(\kappa ,\mu )$-spaces as homogeneous contact metric manifolds, by studying the base space of their canonical fibration. According to the value of the Boeckx invariant, it turns out that the base is a complexification or a para-complexification of a sphere or of a hyperbolic space. In particular, we obtain a new homogeneous representation of the contact metric $(\kappa ,\mu )$-spaces with Boeckx invariant less than $-1$.