Calculus of Variations and Geometric Measure Theory

F. Baudoin - E. Grong - L. Rizzi - V. M. Sylvie

Comparison theorems on H-type sub-Riemannian manifolds

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Inserted: 10 sep 2019
Last Updated: 5 may 2025

Journal: Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations
Volume: 64
Number: 143
Year: 2025
Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00526-025-02992-w

ArXiv: 1909.03532 PDF

Abstract:

On H-type sub-Riemannian manifolds we establish sub-Hessian and sub-Laplacian comparison theorems which are uniform for a family of approximating Riemannian metrics converging to the sub-Riemannian one. We also prove a sharp sub-Riemannian Bonnet-Myers theorem that extends to this general setting results previously proved on contact and quaternionic contact manifolds.