Horizontal gradient of polynomial functions for the standard Engel structure on R^4

DOI10.1007/S10883-014-9242-7MaRDI QIDQ5963664zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Si Tiep Dinh, Krzysztof Kurdyka

Publication date 23 February 2016

Published in Journal of Dynamical and Control Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.5399

zbMATH Keywords

horizontal critical pointhorizontal curvehorizontal gradientlimit of trajectoriessemi-algebraic setstandard Engel structuretransversality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Semialgebraic sets and related spaces (14P10) Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17) Vector distributions (subbundles of the tangent bundles) (58A30) Theory of singularities and catastrophe theory (58Kxx)

Abstract: We investigate the set $V_f$ of horizontal critical points of a polynomial function $f$ for the standard Engel structure defined by the 1-forms $omeg{a}_3=d{x}_3-x_{1}d{x}_2,$ $omeg{a}_4=d{x}_4-x_{3}d{x}_2$, endowed with the sub-Riemannian metric $g_{SR}=d{x}_1^2+d{x}_2^2$. For a generic polynomial, we show that the intersection of any fiber of $f$ and $V_f$ does not contain a horizontal curve. Then we prove that each trajectory of the horizontal gradient of $f$ approaching the set $V_f$ has a limit.

Review text

The authors investigate the set \(V_f\) of horizontal critical points of a polynomial function \(f\in \mathbb{R}[x]\). They study the generic properties of the dimension of \(V_f\) (Theorem 3.1) and the trajectories of the horizontal gradient (Theorem 4.1 and Theorem 5.1). Other authors paper directly connected to this topic is [\textit{S. T. Dinh} et al., Ann. Inst. Fourier 59, No. 5, 1999--2042 (2009; Zbl 1197.14058)] (with P. Orro), and of [\textit{K. Kurdyka} et al., J. Differ. Geom. 56, No. 1, 67--92 (2000; Zbl 1067.58031)] (with P. Orro and S. Simon).

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