Accepted Paper
Inserted: 25 aug 2014
Last Updated: 25 aug 2014
Journal: Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society
Year: 2014
Abstract:
We give a short axiomatic introduction to Carnot groups and their subRiemannian and subFinsler geometry. We explain how such spaces can be metrically described as exactly those proper geodesic spaces that admit dilations and are isometrically homogeneous.
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