Branching geodesics in sub-Riemannian geometry

DOI10.1007/S00039-020-00539-ZMaRDI QIDQ2216461zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Thomas Mietton, L. Rizzi

Publication date 16 December 2020

Published in Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.12293

zbMATH Keywords

sub-Riemannian manifoldnormal geodesicsbranching geodesics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Controllability (93B05) Existence theories for optimal control problems involving ordinary differential equations (49J15) Optimality conditions for problems involving ordinary differential equations (49K15) Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17) Attainable sets, reachability (93B03) Transformations (93B17)

Abstract: In this note, we show that sub-Riemannian manifolds can contain branching normal minimizing geodesics. This phenomenon occurs if and only if a normal geodesic has a discontinuity in its rank at a non-zero time, which in particular for a strictly normal geodesic means that it contains a non-trivial abnormal subsegment. The simplest example is obtained by gluing the three-dimensional Martinet flat structure with the Heisenberg group in a suitable way. We then use this example to construct more general types of branching.

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