Geometry of sub-Finsler Engel manifolds

DOI10.4310/AJM.2007.V11.N4.A9zbMath1141.53026MaRDI QIDQ929279

Christopher G. Moseley, George R. Wilkens, Jeanne Nielsen Clelland

Publication date: 16 June 2008

Published in: The Asian Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ajm/1209735317

zbMATH Keywords

exterior differential systemsoptimal control theorysub-Finsler geometryCartan's method of equivalenceEngel manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Existence theories for optimal control problems involving ordinary differential equations (49J15) Exterior differential systems (Cartan theory) (58A15) Local differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53B40) Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17) (G)-structures (53C10)

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Unnamed Item ⋮ Sub-Finsler structures from the time-optimal control viewpoint for some nilpotent distributions ⋮ Local (sub)-Finslerian geometry for the maximum norms in dimension 2 ⋮ Local \(L^1\) sub-Finsler geometry in dimension 3: non-generic cases ⋮ Extremals of a left-invariant sub-Finsler metric on the Engel group ⋮ Sub-Finsler geodesics on the Cartan group ⋮ Local contact sub-Finslerian geometry for maximum norms in dimension 3 ⋮ A sub-Finsler problem on the Cartan group

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