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Sub-Riemannian geodesics on nested principal bundles

Differential Geometry 2020-09-03 v1

Abstract

We study the interplay between geodesics on two non-holono\-mic systems that are related by the action of a Lie group on them. After some geometric preliminaries, we use the Hamiltonian formalism to write the parametric form of geodesics. We present several geometric examples, including a non-holonomic structure on the Gromoll-Meyer exotic sphere and twistor space.

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@article{arxiv.2009.00965,
  title  = {Sub-Riemannian geodesics on nested principal bundles},
  author = {Mauricio Godoy Molina and Irina Markina},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.00965},
  year   = {2020}
}

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10 pages

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