Some remarks on contact variations in the first Heisenberg group

DOI10.5186/AASFM.2018.4312MaRDI QIDQ4608970zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Sebastiano Golo

Publication date 29 March 2018

Published in Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.07358, http://www.acadsci.fi/mathematica/Vol43/Golo.html

zbMATH Keywords

Heisenberg groupsub-Riemannian geometrysub-Riemannian perimeterBernstein's problemcontact diffeomorphisms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17)

Abstract: We show that in the first sub-Riemannian Heisenberg group there are intrinsic graphs of smooth functions that are both critical and stable points of the sub-Riemannian perimeter under compactly supported variations of contact diffeomorphisms, despite the fact that they are not area-minimizing surfaces. In particular, we show that if $f:mathbb{R}^{2}ightarrowmathbbR$ is a $C^1$-intrinsic function, and $abl{a}^{f}abl{a}^{f}f=0$, then the first contact variation of the sub-Riemannian area of its intrinsic graph is zero and the second contact variation is positive.

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