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Explicit formulae for geodesics in left invariant sub-Finsler problems on Heisenberg groups via convex trigonometry

Optimization and Control 2020-09-15 v2 Differential Geometry

Abstract

In the present paper, we obtain explicit formulae for geodesics in some left-invariant sub-Finsler problems on Heisenberg groups H2n+1\mathbb{H}_{2n+1}. Our main assumption is the following: the compact convex set of unit velocities at identity admits a generalization of spherical coordinates. This includes convex hulls and sums of coordinate 2-dimensional sets, all left-invariant sub-Riemannian structures on H2n+1\mathbb{H}_{2n+1}, and unit balls in LpL_p-metric for 1p1\le p\le\infty. In the last case, extremals are obtained in terms of incomplete Euler integral of the first kind.

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@article{arxiv.2005.08941,
  title  = {Explicit formulae for geodesics in left invariant sub-Finsler problems on Heisenberg groups via convex trigonometry},
  author = {L. V. Lokutsievskiy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.08941},
  year   = {2020}
}

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arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2004.10194