Isometries of Carnot groups and sub-Finsler homogeneous manifolds

DOI10.1007/S12220-014-9552-8zbMath1343.53029arXiv1210.5097OpenAlexW2165716852WikidataQ109520630 ScholiaQ109520630MaRDI QIDQ254269

Enrico Le Donne, Alessandro Ottazzi

Publication date: 8 March 2016

Published in: The Journal of Geometric Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.5097

zbMATH Keywords

homogeneous spacessub-Riemannian geometryHilbert's fifth problemCarnot groupsregularity of isometriessub-Finsler geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) Groups of diffeomorphisms and homeomorphisms as manifolds (58D05) Global differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53C60) Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17) Groups as automorphisms of other structures (22F50)

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