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Last Updated: 25 jul 2017

Journal: GAFA Geometric and Functional Analysis
Volume: 23
Number: 4
Pages: 1371--1401
Year: 2013

Abstract:

We classify extremal curves in free nilpotent Lie groups. The classification is obtained via an explicit integration of the adjoint equation in Pontryagin Maximum Principle. It turns out that abnormal extremals are precisely the horizontal curves contained in algebraic varieties of a specic type. We also extend the results to the nonfree case.

Keywords: Carnot groups, Regularity of geodesics, Abnormal curves, Extremal curves, Free nilpotent groups, SubRiemannian geometry, Algebraic variety

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