On some sub-Riemannian objects in hypersurfaces of sub-Riemannian manifolds

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DOI10.1017/S0004972700034407zbMATH Open1076.53036arXivmath/0701401WikidataQ115336936 ScholiaQ115336936MaRDI QIDQ3158792FDOQ3158792


Authors: K. H. Tan, Xiao-Ping Yang Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 31 January 2005

Published in: Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study some sub-Riemannian objects (such as horizontal connectivity, horizontal connection, horizontal tangent plane, horizontal mean curvature) in hypersurfaces of sub-Riemannian manifolds. We prove that if a connected hypersurface in a contact manifold of dimension more than three is noncharacteristic or with isolated characteristic points, then given two points, there exists at least one piecewise smooth horizontal curve in this hypersurface connecting them. In any sub-Riemannian manifold, we obtain the sub-Riemannian version of the fundamental theorem of Riemannian geometry. We use this nonholonomic connection to study horizontal mean curvature of hypersurfaces.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0701401




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