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

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Publication:4861546


DOI10.1090/memo/0564zbMath0843.53038MaRDI QIDQ4861546

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


53C22: Geodesics in global differential geometry

53-02: Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to differential geometry

49K15: Optimality conditions for problems involving ordinary differential equations

58A30: Vector distributions (subbundles of the tangent bundles)


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