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

DOI10.1137/16M1106511MaRDI QIDQ4685374zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

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Publication date 8 October 2018

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

abnormal geodesicsEngel distributionintegrabilitysub-Riemannian geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

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