Cartan connections for stochastic developments on sub-Riemannian manifolds
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Publication:6344002
DOI10.1007/S12220-021-00743-9arXiv2006.16135WikidataQ115376727 ScholiaQ115376727MaRDI QIDQ6344002FDOQ6344002
Authors: I. Beschastnyi, Karen Habermann, Aleksandr Vasil'Evich Medvedev 
Publication date: 29 June 2020
Abstract: Analogous to the characterisation of Brownian motion on a Riemannian manifold as the development of Brownian motion on a Euclidean space, we construct sub-Riemannian diffusions on equinilpotentisable sub-Riemannian manifolds by developing a canonical stochastic process arising as the lift of Brownian motion to an associated model space. The notion of stochastic development we introduce for equinilpotentisable sub-Riemannian manifolds uses Cartan connections, which take the place of the Levi-Civita connection in Riemannian geometry. We first derive a general expression for the generator of the stochastic process which is the stochastic development with respect to a Cartan connection of the lift of Brownian motion to the model space. We further provide a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a Cartan connection which develops the canonical stochastic process to the sub-Riemannian diffusion associated with the sub-Laplacian defined with respect to the Popp volume. We illustrate the construction of a suitable Cartan connection for free sub-Riemannian structures with two generators and we discuss an example where the condition is not satisfied.
Brownian motion (60J65) Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17) Exterior differential systems (Cartan theory) (58A15) Diffusion processes and stochastic analysis on manifolds (58J65)
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