Sub-Riemannian geometry and geodesics in Banach manifolds (Q2187700)

The author studies sub-Riemannian structures on Banach manifolds. One possible application may be sub-Riemannian fluid mechanics among other applications. He gives several definitions, remarks and examples to present the subject. In particular, the author generalizes the Chow-Rashevsky theorem for exact controllability in infinite dimension under some asymptions. He gives the conditions for the existence of a Hamiltonian geodesic flow, despite the lack of a Pontryagin maximum principle in the infinite-dimensional setting.