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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 (H1,dcc)(\Bbb{H}^1,d_{cc}) equipped with the standard sub-Riemannian structure. In particular, we present an exhaustive analysis in a new case of a map FCH1(H1,R2)F\in C^1_H(\Bbb{H}^1, \Bbb{R}^2) 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}
}

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in french, 54 pages, 7 figures