On sub-Riemannian and Riemannian structures on the Heisenberg groups

DOI10.1007/s10883-016-9316-9zbMath1347.53029OpenAlexW2339851688WikidataQ115383670 ScholiaQ115383670MaRDI QIDQ315759

Péter T. Nagy, Rory Biggs

Publication date: 23 September 2016

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10883-016-9316-9

zbMATH Keywords

Riemannian geometryHeisenberg groupgeodesicssub-Riemannian geometryisometriesconjugate locustotally geodesic subgroups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Existence theories for optimal control problems involving ordinary differential equations (49J15) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Nilpotent and solvable Lie groups (22E25) Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17)

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Isometries of Riemannian and sub-Riemannian structures on three-dimensional Lie groups, Hardy-type inequalities for the Carnot-Carathéodory distance in the Heisenberg group, A class of nilpotent Lie algebras admitting a compact subgroup of automorphisms, Control systems on nilpotent Lie groups of dimension \(\leq 4\): equivalence and classification, Derivations of two-step nilpotent algebras, Biderivations of low-dimensional Leibniz algebras

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