Invariant Carnot–Caratheodory Metrics on $S^3$, $SO(3)$, $SL(2)$, and Lens Spaces

DOI10.1137/070703727zbMath1170.53016arXiv0709.3997MaRDI QIDQ5320742

Publication date: 22 July 2009

Published in: SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0709.3997

zbMATH Keywords

lens spaces; Carnot-Carathéodory distance; global structure of the cut locus; left-invariant sub-Riemannian geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

22E30: Analysis on real and complex Lie groups

49J15: Existence theories for optimal control problems involving ordinary differential equations

53C17: Sub-Riemannian geometry

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