The tangent space in sub-Riemannian geometry

zbMath0884.53027MaRDI QIDQ1365698

André Bellaïche

Publication date: 5 April 1998

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Sciences (New York) (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

nilpotent Lie groupsCarnot groupsub-Riemannian manifoldsCarnot-Carathéodory metrictangent spaceadapted coordinatesdegree of nonholonomypointed Gromov-Hausdorff limit

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15)

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