Generalized planar curves (A-curves) are more general analogues of F-planar curves and geodesics. In particular, several well known geometries are described by more than one affinor. The best known example is the almost quaternionic geometry. A new approach to this topic (A-structures) was started in our earlier papers. In this paper we expand the concept of A-structures to projective A-structures.
We discuss almost complex projective geometry and the relations to a distinguished class of curves. We present the geometry from the viewpoint of the theory of parabolic geometries and we shall specify the classical generalizations of the concept of the planarity of curves to this case. In particular, we show that the natural class of J-planar curves coincides with the class of all geodesics of the so called Weyl connections and preserving of this class turns out to be the necessary and sufficient...
We construct a privileged system of coordinates with respect to the controlling distribution of a trident snake robot and, furthermore, we construct a nilpotent approximation with respect to the given filtration. Note that all constructions are local in the neighbourhood of a particular point. We compare the motions corresponding to the Lie bracket of the original controlling vector fields and their nilpotent approximation.
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