On almost-Riemannian surfaces

DOI10.5802/TSG.284MaRDI QIDQ5365587zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors R. Ghezzi

Publication date 6 October 2017

Published in Séminaire de théorie spectrale et géométrie (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.0949

zbMATH Keywords

control theorygeodesicsPontryagin maximum principleGauss-Bonnet formulaGrushin planeLipschitz classificationalmost-Riemannian geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Control problems for functional-differential equations (34K35) Existence theories for optimal control problems involving ordinary differential equations (49J15) Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17) Manifolds and measure-geometric topics (49Q99)

Abstract: An almost-Riemannian structure on a surface is a generalized Riemannian structure whose local orthonormal frames are given by Lie bracket generating pairs of vector fields that can become collinear. The distribution generated locally by orthonormal frames has maximal rank at almost every point of the surface, but in general it has rank 1 on a nonempty set which is generically a smooth curve. In this paper we provide a short introduction to 2-dimensional almost-Riemannian geometry highlighting its novelties with respect to Riemannian geometry. We present some results that investigate topological, metric and geometric aspects of almost- Riemannian surfaces from a local and global point of view.

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