Homotopically invisible singular curves

DOI10.1007/s00526-017-1203-zzbMath1377.53048arXiv1603.08937OpenAlexW2963763751MaRDI QIDQ2406069

Francesco Boarotto, Andrei A. Agrachev, Antonio Lerario

Publication date: 26 September 2017

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.08937

zbMATH Keywords

energy functionalnormal geodesicssingular curveshorizontal path spacesub-Riemannian minimax principle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Existence of solutions for minimax problems (49J35) Singularities of differentiable mappings in differential topology (57R45) Critical points and critical submanifolds in differential topology (57R70) Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17)

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