Sub-riemannian sphere in Martinet flat case
Sub-Riemannian sphere in Martinet flat case
This article deals with the local sub-Riemannian geometry on ℜ, () where is the distribution ker being the Martinet one-form : and is a Riemannian metric on . We prove that we can take as a sum of squares . Then we analyze the flat case where 1. We parametrize the set of geodesics using elliptic integrals. This allows to compute the exponential mapping, the wave front, the conjugate and cut loci and the sub-Riemannian sphere. A direct consequence of our computations is to show that...
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