Roughness of level sets of differentiable maps on Heisenberg group
Metric Geometry
2011-10-18 v1 Functional Analysis
Abstract
We investigate metric properties of level sets of horizontally differentiable maps defined on the first Heisenberg group equipped with the standard sub-Riemannian structure. In particular, we present an exhaustive analysis in a new case of a map with surjective horizontal differential (an analogue of the classical implicit function theorem). Among other results, we show that a level set of such map is locally a simple curve of Hausdorff sub-Riemannian dimension 2, but, surprisingly, in general its two-dimensional Hausdorff measure can be zero or infinity. Therefore, those level sets (called \textsf{vertical curves}) can be of rough nature and not belong to the class of intrinsic regular manifolds.
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@article{arxiv.1110.3634,
title = {Roughness of level sets of differentiable maps on Heisenberg group},
author = {Artem Kozhevnikov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.3634},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
in french, 54 pages, 7 figures