A Comprehensive Introduction to Sub-Riemannian Geometry

ISBN-13: 9781108476355 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 762 str.

Andrei Agrachev; Davide Barilari; Ugo Boscain

Opis

Provides a comprehensive and self-contained introduction to sub-Riemannian geometry and its applications. For graduate students and researchers.

Recenzje

'… an excellent resource for a broad range of topics in Riemannian and sub-Riemannian geometry. I am strongly convinced that this will become one of the main references for people interested in these topics, ranging from students to specialists.' Alpár R. Mészáros, zbMATH

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Geometry of surfaces in R^3; 2. Vector fields; 3. Sub-Riemannian structures; 4. Pontryagin extremals: characterization and local minimality; 5. First integrals and integrable systems; 6. Chronological calculus; 7. Lie groups and left-invariant sub-Riemannian structures; 8. Endpoint map and exponential map; 9. 2D almost-Riemannian structures; 10. Nonholonomic tangent space; 11. Regularity of the sub-Riemannian distance; 12. Abnormal extremals and second variation; 13. Some model spaces; 14. Curves in the Lagrange Grassmannian; 15. Jacobi curves; 16. Riemannian curvature; 17. Curvature in 3D contact sub-Riemannian geometry; 18. Integrability of the sub-Riemannian geodesic flow on 3D Lie groups; 19. Asymptotic expansion of the 3D contact exponential map; 20. Volumes in sub-Riemannian geometry; 21. The sub-Riemannian heat equation; Appendix. Geometry of parametrized curves in Lagrangian Grassmannians with Igor Zelenko; References; Index.