Corners in non-equiregular sub-Riemannian manifolds

DOI10.1051/COCV/2014041MaRDI QIDQ5262289zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Enrico Le Donne, Gian Paolo Leonardi, Roberto Monti, Davide Vittone

Publication date 13 July 2015

Published in ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.2356

zbMATH Keywords

sub-Riemannian manifoldsgeodesicsregularity of geodesicscornersCarnot-Carathéodory distancelength-minimizing curves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Existence theories for optimal control problems involving ordinary differential equations (49J15) Optimality conditions for problems involving relations other than differential equations (49K21) Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17)

Abstract: We prove that in a class of non-equiregular sub-Riemannian manifolds corners are not length minimizing. This extends the results [4]. As an application of our main result we complete and simplify the analysis in [6], showing that in a 4-dimensional sub-Riemannian structure suggested by Agrachev and Gauthier all length-minimizing curves are smooth.

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• Corners, Cusps, and Parametrizations: Variations on a Theorem of Epstein
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