Left-invariant sub-Riemannian Engel structures: abnormal geodesics and integrability

DOI10.1137/16M1106511zbMATH Open1407.53028arXiv1611.03634OpenAlexW2962992137WikidataQ115246948 ScholiaQ115246948MaRDI QIDQ4685374FDOQ4685374

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Publication date: 8 October 2018

Published in: SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We provide the first known family of examples of integrable homogeneous sub-Riemannian structures admitting strictly abnormal geodesics. These examples were obtained through the analysis of the equivalence problem for sub-Riemannian Engel structures. We formulate a criterion of strict abnormality in terms of structure functions of a canonical frame on a sub-Riemannian Engel manifold as well as estimates on conjugate times.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.03634

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zbMATH Keywords

sub-Riemannian geometryintegrabilityEngel distributionabnormal geodesics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Completely integrable finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, integration methods, integrability tests (37J35) Differential invariants (local theory), geometric objects (53A55) Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Nonholonomic dynamical systems (37J60)

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