Two-dimensional almost-Riemannian structures with tangency points

DOI10.1016/J.ANIHPC.2009.11.011MaRDI QIDQ975289zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors R. Ghezzi, Mario Sigalotti, A. A. Agrachev, Ugo Boscain, Gregoire Charlot

Publication date 9 June 2010

Published in Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré. Analyse Non Linéaire (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0908.2564

zbMATH Keywords

Euler numbertopological invariantsGauss-Bonnet formulaLie bracket

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local Riemannian geometry (53B20) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15)

Abstract: Two-dimensional almost-Riemannian structures are generalized Riemannian structures on surfaces for which a local orthonormal frame is given by a Lie bracket generating pair of vector fields that can become collinear. We study the relation between the topological invariants of an almost-Riemannian structure on a compact oriented surface and the rank-two vector bundle over the surface which defines the structure. We analyse the generic case including the presence of tangency points, i.e. points where two generators of the distribution and their Lie bracket are linearly dependent. The main result of the paper provides a classification of oriented almost-Riemannian structures on compact oriented surfaces in terms of the Euler number of the vector bundle corresponding to the structure. Moreover, we present a Gauss?Bonnet formula for almost-Riemannian structures with tangency points.

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