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Ultrarigid tangents of sub-Riemannian nilpotent groups

Enrico Le Donne, Alessandro Ottazzi, Ben Warhurst (2014)

Annales de l’institut Fourier

We show that the tangent cone at the identity is not a complete quasiconformal invariant for sub-Riemannian nilpotent groups. Namely, we show that there exists a nilpotent Lie group equipped with left invariant sub-Riemannian metric that is not locally quasiconformally equivalent to its tangent cone at the identity. In particular, such spaces are not locally bi-Lipschitz homeomorphic. The result is based on the study of Carnot groups that are rigid in the sense that their only quasiconformal maps...

Umbilical characteristic number of Lagrangian mappings of 3-dimensional pseudooptical manifolds

Maxim È. Kazarian (1996)

Banach Center Publications

As shown by V. Vassilyev [V], D 4 ± singularities of arbitrary Lagrangian mappings of three-folds form no integral characteristic class. We show, nevertheless, that in the pseudooptical case the number of D 4 ± singularities counted with proper signs forms an invariant. We give a topological interpretation of this invariant, and its applications. The results of the paper may be considered as a 3-dimensional generalization of the results due to V. I. Arnold [A].

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