Regularity properties of spheres in homogeneous groups

DOI10.1090/TRAN/7038zbMATH Open1385.53017arXiv1509.03881OpenAlexW2963243027WikidataQ109520616 ScholiaQ109520616MaRDI QIDQ4600441FDOQ4600441

Authors: Enrico Le Donne, Sebastiano Nicolussi Golo 

Publication date: 9 January 2018

Published in: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study left-invariant distances on Lie groups for which there exists a one-parameter family of homothetic automorphisms. The main examples are Carnot groups, in particular the Heisenberg group with the standard dilations. We are interested in criteria implying that, locally and away from the diagonal, the distance is Euclidean Lipschitz and, consequently, that the metric spheres are boundaries of Lipschitz domains in the Euclidean sense. In the first part of the paper, we consider geodesic distances. In this case, we actually prove the regularity of the distance in the more general context of sub-Finsler manifolds with no abnormal geodesics. Secondly, for general groups we identify an algebraic criterium in terms of the dilating automorphisms, which for example makes us conclude the regularity of homogeneous distances on the Heisenberg group.In such a group, we analyze in more details the geometry of metric spheres. We also provide examples of homogeneous groups where spheres presents cusps.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.03881

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zbMATH Keywords

Carnot groupsHeisenberg groupsub-Finsler geometrysub-Riemannian geometryLipschitz regularityabnormal geodesic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nilpotent and solvable Lie groups (22E25) Lipschitz (Hölder) classes (26A16) Length, area, volume, other geometric measure theory (28A75) Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17) Global differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53C60)

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