Shortest paths for sub-Riemannian metrics on rank-two distributions

DOI10.1090/MEMO/0564zbMATH Open0843.53038OpenAlexW2063235932MaRDI QIDQ4861546FDOQ4861546

Authors: Wensheng Liu, Héctor J. Sussmann 

Publication date: 13 February 1996

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

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/d7672d282c2c2f85719fbafcf7a28fab056312e4

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zbMATH Keywords

Hamilton-Jacobi equationsub-Riemannian metricsabnormal extremals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Optimality conditions for problems involving ordinary differential equations (49K15) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to differential geometry (53-02) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Vector distributions (subbundles of the tangent bundles) (58A30)

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