Invariant Carnot–Caratheodory Metrics on $S^3$, $SO(3)$, $SL(2)$, and Lens Spaces

DOI10.1137/070703727zbMath1170.53016arXiv0709.3997OpenAlexW1965743188MaRDI QIDQ5320742

Publication date: 22 July 2009

Published in: SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0709.3997

zbMATH Keywords

lens spaces Carnot-Carathéodory distance global structure of the cut locus left-invariant sub-Riemannian geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Analysis on real and complex Lie groups (22E30) Existence theories for optimal control problems involving ordinary differential equations (49J15) Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17)

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