A metric characterization of Carnot groups

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-2014-12244-1zbMath1307.53027arXiv1304.7493OpenAlexW2593843450WikidataQ109520640 ScholiaQ109520640MaRDI QIDQ5496324

Enrico Le Donne

Publication date: 30 January 2015

Published in: Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.7493

zbMATH Keywords

sub-Riemannian geometryCarnot groupsproper geodesic spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Group actions and symmetry properties (58D19) Nilpotent and solvable Lie groups (22E25) Global differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53C60) Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17)

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