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Dimension Distortion by Sobolev Mappings in Foliated Metric Spaces

Zoltán M. Balogh, Jeremy T. Tyson, Kevin Wildrick (2013)

Analysis and Geometry in Metric Spaces

We quantify the extent to which a supercritical Sobolev mapping can increase the dimension of subsets of its domain, in the setting of metric measure spaces supporting a Poincaré inequality. We show that the set of mappings that distort the dimensions of sets by the maximum possible amount is a prevalent subset of the relevant function space. For foliations of a metric space X defined by a David–Semmes regular mapping Π : X → W, we quantitatively estimate, in terms of Hausdorff dimension in W, the...

Entropy and complexity of a path in sub-riemannian geometry

Frédéric Jean (2003)

ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations

We characterize the geometry of a path in a sub-riemannian manifold using two metric invariants, the entropy and the complexity. The entropy of a subset A of a metric space is the minimum number of balls of a given radius ε needed to cover A . It allows one to compute the Hausdorff dimension in some cases and to bound it from above in general. We define the complexity of a path in a sub-riemannian manifold as the infimum of the lengths of all trajectories contained in an ε -neighborhood of the path,...

Entropy and complexity of a path in sub-Riemannian geometry

Frédéric Jean (2010)

ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations

We characterize the geometry of a path in a sub-Riemannian manifold using two metric invariants, the entropy and the complexity. The entropy of a subset A of a metric space is the minimum number of balls of a given radius ε needed to cover A. It allows one to compute the Hausdorff dimension in some cases and to bound it from above in general. We define the complexity of a path in a sub-Riemannian manifold as the infimum of the lengths of all trajectories contained in an ε-neighborhood of the path,...

Extremals for the Sobolev inequality on the seven-dimensional quaternionic Heisenberg group and the quaternionic contact Yamabe problem

Stefan Ivanov, Ivan Minchev, Dimiter Vassilev (2010)

Journal of the European Mathematical Society

A complete solution to the quaternionic contact Yamabe problem on the seven-dimensional sphere is given. Extremals for the Sobolev inequality on the seven-dimensional Heisenberg group are explicitly described and the best constant in the L2 Folland–Stein embedding theorem is determined.

Geodesics in the Heisenberg Group

Piotr Hajłasz, Scott Zimmerman (2015)

Analysis and Geometry in Metric Spaces

We provide a new and elementary proof for the structure of geodesics in the Heisenberg group Hn. The proof is based on a new isoperimetric inequality for closed curves in R2n.We also prove that the Carnot- Carathéodory metric is real analytic away from the center of the group.

Geometry of control-affine systems.

Clelland, Jeanne N., Moseley, Christopher G., Wilkens, George R. (2009)

SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications [electronic only]

Gradient horizontal de fonctions polynomiales

Si Tiep Dinh, Krzysztof Kurdyka, Patrice Orro (2009)

Annales de l’institut Fourier

Nous étudions les trajectoires du gradient sous-riemannien (appellé horizontal) de fonctions polynômes. Dans ce cadre l’inégalité de Łojasiewicz n’est pas valide et une trajectoire du gradient horizontal peut être de longueur infinie, et peut même s’accumuler sur une courbe fermée. Nous montrons que ces comportement sont exceptionnels ; et que, pour une fonction générique les trajectoires de son gradient horizontal ont des propriétés similaires au cas du gradient riemannien. Pour obtenir la finitude...

High-order angles in almost-Riemannian geometry

Ugo Boscain, Mario Sigalotti (2006/2007)

Séminaire de théorie spectrale et géométrie

Let X and Y be two smooth vector fields on a two-dimensional manifold M . If X and Y are everywhere linearly independent, then they define a Riemannian metric on M (the metric for which they are orthonormal) and they give to M the structure of metric space. If X and Y become linearly dependent somewhere on M , then the corresponding Riemannian metric has singularities, but under generic conditions the metric structure is still well defined. Metric structures that can be defined locally in this way...

Hölder equivalence of the value function for control-affine systems

Dario Prandi (2014)

ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations

We prove the continuity and the Hölder equivalence w.r.t. an Euclidean distance of the value function associated with the L1 cost of the control-affine system q̇ = f0(q) + ∑j=1m ujfj(q), satisfying the strong Hörmander condition. This is done by proving a result in the same spirit as the Ball–Box theorem for driftless (or sub-Riemannian) systems. The techniques used are based on a reduction of the control-affine system to a linear but time-dependent one, for which we are able to define a generalization...

Invertible Carnot Groups

David M. Freeman (2014)

Analysis and Geometry in Metric Spaces

We characterize Carnot groups admitting a 1-quasiconformal metric inversion as the Lie groups of Heisenberg type whose Lie algebras satisfy the J2-condition, thus characterizing a special case of inversion invariant bi-Lipschitz homogeneity. A more general characterization of inversion invariant bi-Lipschitz homogeneity for certain non-fractal metric spaces is also provided.

Isometries of Riemannian and sub-Riemannian structures on three-dimensional Lie groups

Rory Biggs (2017)

Communications in Mathematics

We investigate the isometry groups of the left-invariant Riemannian and sub-Riemannian structures on simply connected three-dimensional Lie groups. More specifically, we determine the isometry group for each normalized structure and hence characterize for exactly which structures (and groups) the isotropy subgroup of the identity is contained in the group of automorphisms of the Lie group. It turns out (in both the Riemannian and sub-Riemannian cases) that for most structures any isometry is the...

Maxwell strata in sub-Riemannian problem on the group of motions of a plane

Igor Moiseev, Yuri L. Sachkov (2010)

ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations

The left-invariant sub-Riemannian problem on the group of motions of a plane is considered. Sub-Riemannian geodesics are parameterized by Jacobi's functions. Discrete symmetries of the problem generated by reflections of pendulum are described. The corresponding Maxwell points are characterized, on this basis an upper bound on the cut time is obtained.

Méthodes géométriques et analytiques pour étudier l'application exponentielle, la sphère et le front d'onde en géométrie sous-riemannienne dans le cas Martinet

Bernard Bonnard, Monique Chyba (2010)

ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations

Consider a sub-riemannian geometry(U,D,g) where U is a neighborhood of 0 in R3, D is a Martinet type distribution identified to ker ω, ω being the 1-form: ω = d z - y 2 2 d x , q=(x,y,z) and g is a metric on D which can be taken in the normal form: g = a ( q ) d x 2 + c ( q ) d y 2 , a=1+yF(q), c=1+G(q), G | x = y = 0 = 0 . In a previous article we analyze the flat case: a=c=1; we describe the conjugate and cut loci, the sphere and the wave front. The objectif of this article is to provide a geometric and computational framework to analyze the general case....

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