Sub-Riemannian geodesics on the 3-D sphere

DOI10.1007/S11785-008-0089-3MaRDI QIDQ841669zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Irina Markina, Alexander Vasil'ev, Der-Chen Chang

Publication date 18 September 2009

Published in Complex Analysis and Operator Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0804.1695

zbMATH Keywords

geodesicsHamiltonian systemsub-Riemannian geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17) Hamilton's equations (70H05)

Abstract: The unit sphere $mathbb{S}^3$ can be identified with the unitary group SU(2). Under this identification the unit sphere can be considered as a non-commutative Lie group. The commutation relations for the vector fields of the corresponding Lie algebra define a 2-step sub-Riemannian manifold. We study sub-Riemannian geodesics on this sub-Riemannian manifold making use of the Hamiltonian formalism and solving the corresponding Hamiltonian system.

Review text

With the view of identification, the authors do an identity between \(S^3\) and the unitary group \(SU(2)\), and they construct a celebrated frame Hamiltonian system on the unit sphere in the setting of identification. They can further consider the so-called geodesics on the corresponding space: 2-step sub-Riemannian manifold. The results posed in this paper are interesting.

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