Curvatures of homogeneous sub-Riemannian manifolds

DOI10.1007/S40879-017-0171-3zbMATH Open1383.53025arXiv1705.00865OpenAlexW2962954632WikidataQ115371567 ScholiaQ115371567MaRDI QIDQ1695698FDOQ1695698

Authors: V. N. Berestovskij 

Publication date: 8 February 2018

Published in: European Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The author discusses in some detail the old definitions of the curvature tensors for rigged metrized distributions on manifolds given by Schouten, Wagner, and Solov'ev. To calculate the Solov'ev sectional and Ricci curvatures for homogeneous sub-Riemannian manifolds, the author suggests to use in some cases special riggings of invariant completely non- holonomic distributions on manifolds. As a justification, we find a foliation on the cotangent bundle over a Lie group G whose leaves are tangent to invariant Hamiltonian vector fields for the Pontryagin-Hamilton func- tion. This function was applied in the Pontryagin maximum principle for the time-optimal problem. The foliation is entirely described by the co-adjoint representation of the Lie group G. Also we use the canonical symplectic form and its values for the above mentioned invari- ant Hamiltonian vector fields. In particular, the above rigging method is applicable to contact sub-Riemannian manifolds, sub-Riemannian Carnot groups, and homogeneous sub-Riemannian manifolds possessing a subme- try onto a Riemannian manifold. At the end, some examples are presented.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.00865

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zbMATH Keywords

coadjoint representationLie algebrasymplectic formLie groupHamiltonian vector fieldcontact formcotangent bundlesubmetrysub-Riemannian curvatureleft-invariant sub-Riemannian metrichomogeneous sub-Riemannian manifoldPontryagin-Hamilton function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) Symplectic manifolds (general theory) (53D05) Riemannian, Finsler and other geometric structures on infinite-dimensional manifolds (58B20) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10)

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