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Corners in non-equiregular sub-Riemannian manifolds

Optimization and Control 2014-03-11 v1 Analysis of PDEs Differential Geometry Metric Geometry

Abstract

We prove that in a class of non-equiregular sub-Riemannian manifolds corners are not length minimizing. This extends the results [4]. As an application of our main result we complete and simplify the analysis in [6], showing that in a 4-dimensional sub-Riemannian structure suggested by Agrachev and Gauthier all length-minimizing curves are smooth.

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@article{arxiv.1403.2356,
  title  = {Corners in non-equiregular sub-Riemannian manifolds},
  author = {Enrico Le Donne and Gian Paolo Leonardi and Roberto Monti and Davide Vittone},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.2356},
  year   = {2014}
}