Bicycle paths, elasticae and sub-Riemannian geometry

DOI10.1088/1361-6544/ABF5BFMaRDI QIDQ4997331zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Gil Bor, Enrico Le Donne, Richard Montgomery, Andrei A. Ardentov, Yu L. Sachkov

Publication date 29 June 2021

Published in Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.04201

zbMATH Keywords

sub-Riemannian geometryelasticaebicycle mathematics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04) Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17) Classical linear elasticity (74B05) Differential geometric aspects in kinematics (53A17)

Abstract: We relate the sub-Riemannian geometry on the group of rigid motions of the plane to `bicycling mathematics'. We show that this geometry's geodesics correspond to bike paths whose front tracks are either non-inflectional Euler elasticae or straight lines, and that its infinite minimizing geodesics (or `metric lines') correspond to bike paths whose front tracks are either straight lines or `Euler's solitons' (also known as Syntractrix or Convicts' curves).

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