Variational formulas for curves of fixed degree

zbMATH Open1490.49033arXiv1902.04015MaRDI QIDQ2113460FDOQ2113460

Manuel Ritoré, Gianmarco Giovannardi, Giovanna Citti

Publication date: 14 March 2022

Published in: Advances in Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider a length functional for $C^1$ curves of fixed degree in graded manifolds equipped with a Riemannian metric. The first variation of this length functional can be computed only if the curve can be deformed in a suitable sense, and this condition is expressed via a differential equation along the curve. In the classical differential geometry setting, the analogous condition was considered by Bryant and Hsu in [Invent. Math., 114(2):435-461, 1993, J. Differential Geom., 36(3):551-589, 1992], who proved that it is equivalent to the surjectivity of a holonomy map. The purpose of this paper is to extend this deformation theory to curves of fixed degree providing several examples and applications. In particular, we give a useful sufficient condition to guarantee the possibility of deforming a curve.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04015

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zbMATH Keywords

Riemannian metricgraded manifoldcurvesvariational formulas

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17)

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