Variational aspects of the geodesics problem in sub-Riemannian geometry

DOI10.1016/S0393-0440(01)00011-0zbMath1002.37029arXivmath/9911215WikidataQ115338899 ScholiaQ115338899MaRDI QIDQ5947295

Paolo Piccione, Daniel V. Tausk

Publication date: 12 January 2003

Published in: Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9911215

zbMATH Keywords

variational calculus; geodesics; critical point; sub-Riemannian geometry; sub-Riemannian action functional

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

58E10: Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable)

53C17: Sub-Riemannian geometry

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