On geodesic equivalence of Riemannian metrics and sub-Riemannian metrics on distributions of corank 1

DOI10.1007/S10958-006-0151-5zbMATH Open1244.53048OpenAlexW2062782823WikidataQ115382518 ScholiaQ115382518MaRDI QIDQ443178FDOQ443178

Authors Igor Zelenko 

Publication date 6 August 2012

Published in Journal of Mathematical Sciences (New York) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0406111

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Optimization of shapes other than minimal surfaces (49Q10) Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22)

Abstract: The present paper is devoted to the problem of (local) geodesic equivalence of Riemannian metrics and sub-Riemannian metrics on generic corank 1 distributions. Using Pontryagin Maximum Principle, we treat Riemannian and sub-Riemannian cases in an unified way and obtain some algebraic necessary conditions for the geodesic equivalence of (sub-)Riemannian metrics. In this way first we obtain a new elementary proof of classical Levi-Civita's Theorem about the classification of all Riemannian geodesically equivalent metrics in a neighborhood of so-called regular (stable) point w.r.t. these metrics. Secondly we prove that sub-Riemannian metrics on contact distributions are geodesically equivalent iff they are constantly proportional. Then we describe all geodesically equivalent sub-Riemannian metrics on quasi-contact distributions. Finally we make the classification of all pairs of geodesically equivalent Riemannian metrics on a surface, which proportional in an isolated point. This is the simplest case, which was not covered by Levi-Civita's Theorem.

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