Conjugate and cut loci of a two-sphere of revolution with application to optimal control

DOI10.1016/J.ANIHPC.2008.03.010zbMATH Open1184.53036OpenAlexW2072961349MaRDI QIDQ2272060FDOQ2272060

Authors Bernard Bonnard, J.-B. Caillau, Robert Sinclair, Minoru Tanaka

Publication date 5 August 2009

Published in Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré. Analyse Non Linéaire (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/78880

zbMATH Keywords

cut locusoptimal controlconjugate locusspace and quantum mechanics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Optimality conditions for problems involving ordinary differential equations (49K15) Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Control of mechanical systems (70Q05)

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• Almost-Riemannian structures on nonnilpotent, solvable 3D Lie groups
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