Comparison theorems for conjugate points in sub-Riemannian geometry

DOI10.1051/COCV/2015013MaRDI QIDQ2808052zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors L. Rizzi, Davide Barilari

Publication date 26 May 2016

Published in European Series in Applied and Industrial Mathematics (ESAIM): Control, Optimization and Calculus of Variations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.3193

zbMATH Keywords

comparison theoremssub-Riemannian geometrygeodesicscurvatureconjugate points

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear-quadratic optimal control problems (49N10) Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22)

Abstract: We prove sectional and Ricci-type comparison theorems for the existence of conjugate points along sub-Riemannian geodesics. In order to do that, we regard sub-Riemannian structures as a special kind of variational problems. In this setting, we identify a class of models, namely linear quadratic optimal control systems, that play the role of the constant curvature spaces. As an application, we prove a version of sub-Riemannian Bonnet-Myers theorem and we obtain some new results on conjugate points for three dimensional left-invariant sub-Riemannian structures.

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