Sub-Riemannian metrics and isoperimetric problems in the contact case

DOI10.1023/A:1009522615574zbMath1008.53019OpenAlexW26145432MaRDI QIDQ5948393

Andrei A. Agrachev, Jean-Paul Gauthier

Publication date: 9 April 2002

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Sciences (New York) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1009522615574

zbMATH Keywords

contact structuresingularityexponential mappingisoperimetric problemwave frontcausticsub-Riemannian metric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local Riemannian geometry (53B20) Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30) Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17)

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