Metabelian distributions and sub-Riemannian geodesics

DOI10.1515/ACV-2025-0104MaRDI QIDQ7290770zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Enrico Le Donne, Nicola Paddeu, Alessandro Socionovo

Publication date 7 July 2026

Published in Advances in Calculus of Variations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1515/ACV-2025-0104

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Existence theories for optimal control problems involving ordinary differential equations (49J15) Connections (general theory) (53C05) Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10)

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