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Partial Lipschitz regularity of the minimum time function for sub-Riemannian control systems

Optimization and Control 2022-09-20 v1 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

In Euclidean space of dimension 2 or 3, we study a minimum time problem associated with a system of real-analytic vector fields satisfying H\"ormander's bracket generating condition, where the target is a nonempty closed set. We show that, in dimension 2, the minimum time function is locally Lipschitz continuous while, in dimension 3, it is Lipschitz continuous in the complement of a set of measure zero. In particular, in both cases, the minimum time function is a.e. differentiable on the complement of the target. In dimension 3, in general, there is no hope to have the same regularity result as in dimension 2. Indeed, examples are known where the minimum time function fails to be locally Lipschitz continuous.

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@article{arxiv.2209.08866,
  title  = {Partial Lipschitz regularity of the minimum time function for sub-Riemannian control systems},
  author = {Paolo Albano and Vincenzo Basco and Piermarco Cannarsa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.08866},
  year   = {2022}
}

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18 pages, no figures

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