Sub-Riemannian geometry of Stiefel manifolds

DOI10.1137/130922537MaRDI QIDQ5494903zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Christian Autenried, Irina Markina

Publication date 30 July 2014

Published in SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1305.6056, http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.743.8388

zbMATH Keywords

cut locusGrassmann manifoldnormal geodesicStiefel manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Planar arrangements of lines and pseudolines (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C30) Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22)

Abstract: In the paper we consider the Stiefel manifold $V_{n;k}$ as a principal $U(k)$- bundle over the Grassmann manifold and study the cut locus from the unit element. We gave the complete description of this cut locus on $V_{n;1}$ and presented the sufficient condition on the general case. At the end, we study the complement to the cut locus of $V_{2k;k}$.

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