Non-minimality of spirals in sub-Riemannian manifolds

DOI10.1007/S00526-021-02077-4MaRDI QIDQ2236823zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Roberto Monti, Alessandro Socionovo

Publication date 26 October 2021

Published in Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.10940

zbMATH Keywords

analytic sub-Riemmanian manifolddistribution of rank 2end-point equationshorizontal spiral

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Length, area, volume, other geometric measure theory (28A75) Optimality conditions for problems involving relations other than differential equations (49K21) Optimality conditions for solutions belonging to restricted classes (Lipschitz controls, bang-bang controls, etc.) (49K30) Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17)

Abstract: We show that in analytic sub-Riemannian manifolds of rank 2 satisfying a commutativity condition spiral-like curves are not length minimizing near the center of the spiral. The proof relies upon the delicate construction of a competing curve.

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