A metric interpretation of the geodesic curvature in the Heisenberg group

DOI10.1007/S10883-019-09444-7zbMATH Open1433.53053arXiv1811.03429OpenAlexW2899545985WikidataQ127996331 ScholiaQ127996331MaRDI QIDQ2294615FDOQ2294615

Authors: Mathieu Kohli 

Publication date: 11 February 2020

Published in: Journal of Dynamical and Control Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we study the notion of geodesic curvature of smooth horizontal curves parametrized by arc lenght in the Heisenberg group, that is the simplest sub-Riemannian structure. Our goal is to give a metric interpretation of this notion of geodesic curvature as the first corrective term in the Taylor expansion of the distance between two close points of the curve.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.03429

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zbMATH Keywords

Heisenberg groupgeodesic curvaturesub-Riemannian distance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential invariants (local theory), geometric objects (53A55) Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22)

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