Lipschitz classification of almost-Riemannian distances on compact oriented surfaces

DOI10.1007/S12220-011-9262-4zbMATH Open1259.53031OpenAlexW1972616956WikidataQ115376886 ScholiaQ115376886MaRDI QIDQ1935489FDOQ1935489

Authors Ugo Boscain, R. Ghezzi, Gregoire Charlot, Mario Sigalotti

Publication date 18 February 2013

Published in The Journal of Geometric Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1003.4842

zbMATH Keywords

sub-Riemannian geometryLipschitz equivalencealmost-Riemannian surfaceCarnot-Carathéodory distance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17) Metric spaces, metrizability (54E35)

Abstract: Two-dimensional almost-Riemannian structures are generalized Riemannian structures on surfaces for which a local orthonormal frame is given by a Lie bracket generating pair of vector fields that can become collinear. We consider the Carnot--Caratheodory distance canonically associated with an almost-Riemannian structure and study the problem of Lipschitz equivalence between two such distances on the same compact oriented surface. We analyse the generic case, allowing in particular for the presence of tangency points, i.e., points where two generators of the distribution and their Lie bracket are linearly dependent. The main result of the paper provides a characterization of the Lipschitz equivalence class of an almost-Riemannian distance in terms of a labelled graph associated with it.

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