Geodesics in Jet Space

DOI10.1134/S1560354722020034MaRDI QIDQ6378816arXivFDO

Authors Alejandro Bravo-Doddoli, Richard Glee Montgomery

Publication date 28 September 2021

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1134/S1560354722020034

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Jets in global analysis (58A20) Vector distributions (subbundles of the tangent bundles) (58A30)

arXiv classification

math.DGmath.OC

Abstract: The space $J^k$ of $k$-jets of a real function of one real variable $x$ admits the structure of Carnot group type. As such, $J^k$ admits a submetry (sR submersion) onto the Euclidean plane. Horizontal lifts of Euclidean lines (which are the left-translates of horizontal one-parameter subgroups) are thus globally minimizing geodesics on $J^k$. All $J^k$-geodesics, minimizing or not, are constructed from degree $k$ polynomials in $x$ according to Anzaldo-Meneses and Monroy-Per'ez, reviewed here. The constant polynomials correspond to the horizontal lifts of lines. Which other polynomials yield globally minimizers and what do these minimizers look like? We give a partial answer. Our methods include constructing an intermediate three-dimensional "magnetic" sub-Riemannian space lying between the jet space and the plane, solving a Hamilton-Jacobi (eikonal) equations on this space, and analyzing period asymptotics associated to period degenerations arising from two-parameter families of these polynomials. Along the way, we conjecture the independence of the cut time of any geodesic on jet space from the starting location on that geodesic.

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