The Hessian of the distance from a surface in the Heisenberg group.
The Laplace-Beltrami operator in almost-Riemannian Geometry
We study the Laplace-Beltrami operator of generalized Riemannian structures on orientable surfaces for which a local orthonormal frame is given by a pair of vector fields that can become collinear.Under the assumption that the structure is 2-step Lie bracket generating, we prove that the Laplace-Beltrami operator is essentially self-adjoint and has discrete spectrum. As a consequence, a quantum particle cannot cross the singular set (i.e., the set where the vector fields become collinear) and the...
The structure of reachable sets for affine control systems induced by generalized Martinet sub-lorentzian metrics
In this paper we investigate analytic affine control systems q̇ = X + uY, u ∈ [a,b] , where X,Y is an orthonormal frame for a generalized Martinet sub-Lorentzian structure of order k of Hamiltonian type. We construct normal forms for such systems and, among other things, we study the connection between the presence of the singular trajectory starting at q0 on the boundary of the reachable set from q0 with the minimal number of analytic functions needed for describing the reachable set from q0.
Transport optimal de mesure dans le groupe de Heisenberg