Curvature: A Variational Approach

DOI10.1090/memo/1225zbMath1409.49001arXiv1306.5318OpenAlexW1566734135MaRDI QIDQ4645892

Luca Rizzi, Davide Barilari, Andrei A. Agrachev

Publication date: 11 January 2019

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1306.5318

zbMATH Keywords

curvaturegeodesic flowssub-Riemannian geometryJacobi curvesaffine optimal control systemsgeodesic cost function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Existence theories for optimal control problems involving ordinary differential equations (49J15) Riemannian, Finsler and other geometric structures on infinite-dimensional manifolds (58B20) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Relations of infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian dynamical systems with topology, geometry and differential geometry (37K25) Optimization of shapes other than minimal surfaces (49Q10) Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17) Optimality conditions for problems in abstract spaces (49K27) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to calculus of variations and optimal control (49-02)

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