Homotopically invisible singular curves

DOI10.1007/S00526-017-1203-ZMaRDI QIDQ2406069zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Francesco Boarotto, A. A. Agrachev, Antonio Lerario

Publication date 26 September 2017

Published in Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.08937

zbMATH Keywords

energy functionalsingular curvesnormal geodesicshorizontal path spacesub-Riemannian minimax principle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17) Critical points and critical submanifolds in differential topology (57R70) Existence of solutions for minimax problems (49J35) Singularities of differentiable mappings in differential topology (57R45)

Abstract: Given a smooth manifold $M$ and a totally nonholonomic distribution $DeltasubsetTM$ of rank $d$, we study the effect of singular curves on the topology of the space of horizontal paths joining two points on $M$. Singular curves are critical points of the endpoint map $F:gammamapstogamma(1)$ defined on the space $Omega$ of horizontal paths starting at a fixed point $x$. We consider a subriemannian energy $J:Omega(y)omathbbR$, where $Omega(y)=F^{-1}(y)$ is the space of horizontal paths connecting $x$ with $y$, and study those singular paths that do not influence the homotopy type of the Lebesgue sets $gammainOmega(y),|,J(gamma)leE$. We call them homotopically invisible. It turns out that for $dgeq3$ generic subriemannian structures have only homotopically invisible singular curves. Our results can be seen as a first step for developing the calculus of variations on the singular space of horizontal curves (in this direction we prove a subriemannian Minimax principle and discuss some applications).

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