English

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 MM of dimension nn rolling on the sphere SnS^n. 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 C(M)C(M) of MM. 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 MM; and in the second case, we construct a 3-Sasakian structure on MM.

Keywords

Cite

@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}
}

Comments

17 pages

R2 v1 2026-06-22T07:41:40.704Z