Shortest and straightest geodesics in sub-Riemannian geometry

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2020.103713MaRDI QIDQ778977zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Dmitri Alekseevsky

Publication date 21 July 2020

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.08275

zbMATH Keywords

sub-Riemannian geometrysub-Riemannian geodesicssub-Riemannian homogeneolus manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17)

Abstract: There are many equivalent definitions of Riemannian geodesics. They are naturally generalised to sub-Riemannian manifold, but become non-equivalent. We give a review of different definitions of geodesics of a sub-Riemannian manifold and interrelation between them. We recall three variational definitions of geodesics as (locally) shortest curves (Euler-Lagrange, Pontyagin and Hamilton) and three definitions of geodesics as straightest curves (d'Alembert , Levi-Civita-Schouten and Cartan-Tanaka ), used in nonholonomic mechanics and discuss their interrelations. We consider a big class of sub-Riemannian manifolds associated with principal bundle over a Riemannian manifolds, for which shortest geodesics coincides with straightest geodesics. Using the geometry of flag manifolds, we describe some classes of compact homogeneous sub-Riemannian manifolds (including contact sub-Riemannian manifolds and symmetric sub-Riemannian manifolds) where straightest geodesics coincides with shortest geodesics. Construction of geodesics in these cases reduces to description of Riemannian geodesics of the Riemannian homogeneous manifold or left-invariant metric on a Lie group.

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