Sard property for the endpoint map on some Carnot groups

DOI10.1016/J.ANIHPC.2015.07.004zbMATH Open1352.53025arXiv1503.03610OpenAlexW1902731201WikidataQ109520635 ScholiaQ109520635MaRDI QIDQ342603FDOQ342603

Authors: Enrico Le Donne, Richard Montgomery, Alessandro Ottazzi, Pierre Pansu, Davide Vittone 

Publication date: 17 November 2016

Published in: Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré. Analyse Non Linéaire (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In Carnot-Caratheodory or sub-Riemannian geometry, one of the major open problems is whether the conclusions of Sard's theorem holds for the endpoint map, a canonical map from an infinite-dimensional path space to the underlying finite-dimensional manifold. The set of critical values for the endpoint map is also known as abnormal set, being the set of endpoints of abnormal extremals leaving the base point. We prove that a strong version of Sard's property holds for all step-2 Carnot groups and several other classes of Lie groups endowed with left-invariant distributions. Namely, we prove that the abnormal set lies in a proper analytic subvariety. In doing so we examine several characterizations of the abnormal set in the case of Lie groups.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.03610

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zbMATH Keywords

Carnot groupssub-Riemannian geometryabnormal curvesendpoint mappolarized groupsSard's property

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nilpotent and solvable Lie groups (22E25) Groups as automorphisms of other structures (22F50) Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17) Homogeneous spaces and generalizations (14M17)

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