Curvature: A Variational Approach

DOI10.1090/MEMO/1225MaRDI QIDQ4645892zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors L. Rizzi, A. A. Agrachev, Davide Barilari

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

sub-Riemannian geometrygeodesic flowscurvatureJacobi curvesaffine optimal control systemsgeodesic cost function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: The curvature discussed in this paper is a rather far going generalization of the Riemannian sectional curvature. We define it for a wide class of optimal control problems: a unified framework including geometric structures such as Riemannian, sub-Riemannian, Finsler and sub-Finsler structures; a special attention is paid to the sub-Riemannian (or Carnot-Caratheodory) metric spaces. Our construction of the curvature is direct and naive, and it is similar to the original approach of Riemann. Surprisingly, it works in a very general setting and, in particular, for all sub-Riemannian spaces.

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