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 . 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 , and unit balls in -metric for . 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