Bicycle paths, elasticae and sub-Riemannian geometry

DOI10.1088/1361-6544/ABF5BFzbMATH Open1468.53029arXiv2010.04201OpenAlexW3091840881WikidataQ109931063 ScholiaQ109931063MaRDI QIDQ4997331FDOQ4997331

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

Publication date: 29 June 2021

Published in: Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

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).

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)

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