Geodesics and isometries of Carnot groups

DOI10.1215/kjm/1250283693zbMath1060.53039MaRDI QIDQ1890291

Iwao Kishimoto

Publication date: 29 December 2004

Published in: Journal of Mathematics of Kyoto University (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1215/kjm/1250283693

zbMATH Keywords

geodesics; nilpotent Lie groups; Carnot groups; sub-Riemannian manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

57S25: Groups acting on specific manifolds

53C22: Geodesics in global differential geometry

53C17: Sub-Riemannian geometry

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