Integrability conditions on Engel-type manifolds

DOI10.1007/S13324-015-0107-3zbMATH Open1320.93016OpenAlexW776227965MaRDI QIDQ496350FDOQ496350

Authors: Ovidiu Calin, Jishan Hu, Der-Chen Chang 

Publication date: 21 September 2015

Published in: Analysis and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://repository.ust.hk/ir/bitstream/1783.1-72681/1/601410-Article-4-fulltext-pre.pdf

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zbMATH Keywords

integrability conditionssub-Riemannian geometryHeisenberg distributionEngel vector fieldsPoincaré lemma

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Controllability (93B05) Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17)

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• Hypoelliptic second order differential equations
• On sub-Riemannian geodesics on the Engel groups: Hamilton's equations
• Sub-Riemannian geometry. General theory and examples
• Integrability conditions for the Grushin and Martinet distributions
• Integrability conditions for Heisenberg and Grushin-type distributions
• Reduction of nonholonomic variation problems to isoperimetric ones and connections in principal bundles
• Poincaré's lemma on the Heisenberg group

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