Sub-Riemannian curvature in contact geometry

DOI10.1007/S12220-016-9684-0zbMATH Open1376.53059arXiv1505.04374OpenAlexW1483477236WikidataQ115376825 ScholiaQ115376825MaRDI QIDQ522479FDOQ522479

Authors: Davide Barilari, L. Rizzi, A. A. Agrachev 

Publication date: 13 April 2017

Published in: The Journal of Geometric Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We compare different notions of curvature on contact sub-Riemannian manifolds. In particular we introduce canonical curvatures as the coefficients of the sub-Riemannian Jacobi equation. The main result is that all these coefficients are encoded in the asymptotic expansion of the horizontal derivatives of the sub-Riemannian distance. We explicitly compute their expressions in terms of the standard tensors of contact geometry. As an application of these results, we obtain a sub-Riemannian version of the Bonnet-Myers theorem that applies to any contact manifold.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.04374

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zbMATH Keywords

comparison theoremcurvaturecontact structureJacobi geodesic equation, Bonnet-Myerssub-Riemannian distance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear-quadratic optimal control problems (49N10) Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10)

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