Surfaces of genus g ≥ 1 in 3D contact sub-Riemannian manifolds

DOI10.1051/COCV/2023072MaRDI QIDQ6145593zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Ugo Boscain

Publication date 2 February 2024

Published in ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.03373

zbMATH Keywords

attainable setscontact manifoldsreachabilitysub-Riemannian geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10) Attainable sets, reachability (93B03)

Abstract: We consider surfaces embedded in a 3D contact sub-Riemannian manifold and the problem of the finiteness of the induced distance (i.e., the infimum of the length of horizontal curves that belong to the surface). Recently it has been proved that for a surface having the topology of a sphere embedded in a tight co-orientable structure, the distance is always finite. In this paper we study closed surfaces of genus larger than 1, proving that such surfaces can be embedded in such a way that the induced distance is finite or infinite. We then study the structural stability of the finiteness/not-finiteness of the distance.

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