Why are normal sub-Riemannian extremals locally minimizing?

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2018.06.005MaRDI QIDQ1654206zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Michał Jóźwikowski, Witold Respondek

Publication date 7 August 2018

Published in Differential Geometry and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.09738

zbMATH Keywords

geodesicsub-Riemannian geometrylocal optimalitynormal extremal

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Optimality conditions for problems involving ordinary differential equations (49K15) Optimization of shapes other than minimal surfaces (49Q10) Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10)

Abstract: It is well-known that normal extremals in sub-Riemannian geometry are curves which locally minimize the energy functional. Most proofs of this fact do not make, however, an explicit use of relations between local optimality and the geometry of the problem. In this paper, we provide a new proof of that classical result, which gives insight into direct geometric reasons of local optimality. Also the relation of the regularity of normal extremals with their optimality becomes apparent in our approach.

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