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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.

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