Higher Elastica: Geodesics in the Jet Space

DOI10.1007/S40879-022-00574-0MaRDI QIDQ6336939arXivFDO

Authors Alejandro Bravo-Doddoli

Publication date 17 March 2020

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/S40879-022-00574-0

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Completely integrable finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, integration methods, integrability tests (37J35) Relations of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems with topology, geometry and differential geometry (symplectic geometry, Poisson geometry, etc.) (37J39) Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17)

arXiv classification

math.DS

Abstract: Carnot groups are subRiemannian manifolds. As such they admit geodesic flows, which are left-invariant Hamiltonian flows on their cotangent bundles. Some of these flows are integrable. Some are not. The space of k-jets for real-valued functions on the real line forms a Carnot group of dimension $k+2$. We show that its geodesic flow is integrable and that its geodesics generalize Euler's elastica, with the case $k=2$ corresponding to the elastica, as shown by Sachkov and Ardentov.

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