A metric characterization of Carnot groups

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-2014-12244-1MaRDI QIDQ5496324zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Enrico Le Donne

Publication date 30 January 2015

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.7493

zbMATH Keywords

Carnot groupsproper geodesic spacessub-Riemannian geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nilpotent and solvable Lie groups (22E25) Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17) Global differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53C60) Group actions and symmetry properties (58D19)

Abstract: We give a short axiomatic introduction to Carnot groups and their subRiemannian and subFinsler geometry. We explain how such spaces can be metrically described as exactly those proper geodesic spaces that admit dilations and are isometrically homogeneous.

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