Rolling against a sphere: The non transitive case
Differential Geometry
2014-12-24 v1 Optimization and Control
Abstract
We study the control system of a Riemannian manifold of dimension rolling on the sphere . The controllability of this system is described in terms of the holonomy of a vector bundle connection which, we prove, is isomorphic to the Riemannian holonomy group of the cone of . Using Berger's list, we reduce the possible holonomies to a few families. In particular, we focus on the cases where the holonomy is the unitary and the symplectic group. In the first case, using the rolling formalism, we construct explicitly a Sasakian structure on ; and in the second case, we construct a 3-Sasakian structure on .
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@article{arxiv.1412.7218,
title = {Rolling against a sphere: The non transitive case},
author = {Yacine Chitour and Mauricio Godoy Molina and Petri Kokkonen and Irina Markina},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.7218},
year = {2014}
}
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17 pages