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Nonholonomic Lorentzian geometry on some \(\mathbb H\)-type groups (English)
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2 November 2009
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The sub-Riemannian manifolds and the geometry introduced by bracket generating distributions of smoothly varying \(k\)-plains, have applications in control theory, quantum physics and other areas. In the present paper, the authors study some examples of \(H\)-type groups furnished with a Lorentzian metric. More exactly there are studied the Heisenberg group and the quaternion \(H\)-type group, endowed with the Lorentzian metric defining a causal character of the manifold under consideration. Also there are given a description of the set reachable by time-like future directed curves.
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sub-Riemannian and sub-Lorentzian geometry
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geodesic
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Hamiltonian system
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reachable set
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control theory
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Heisenberg group
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