Local non-injectivity of the exponential map at critical points in sub-Riemannian geometry

DOI10.1016/J.NA.2023.113421MaRDI QIDQ6185358zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Samuël Borza, Wilhelm Klingenberg

Publication date 8 January 2024

Published in Nonlinear Analysis. Theory, Methods \& Applications. Series A: Theory and Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.05586

zbMATH Keywords

conjugate pointsexponential mapsub-Riemannian manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10)

Abstract: We prove that the sub-Riemannian exponential map is not injective in any neighbourhood of certain critical points. Namely that it does not behave like the injective map of reals given by $f(x)=x^3$ near its critical point $x=0$. As a consequence, we characterise conjugate points in ideal sub-Riemannian manifolds in terms of the metric structure of the space. The proof uses the Hilbert invariant integral of the associated variational problem.

Review text

The authors ``prove that the sub-Riemannian exponential map is not injective in any neighbourhood of certain critical points. They start by explaining the historical background of this topic in the context of Finsler geometry; then, they thoroughly compare their achievement with analogous results in the context of Riemannian geometry and discuss open problems.

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