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Subdifferentials and Minimizing Sard Conjecture in Sub-Riemannian Geometry

Differential Geometry 2023-02-07 v1 Metric Geometry Optimization and Control

Abstract

We use techniques from nonsmooth analysis and geometric measure theory to provide new examples of complete sub-Riemannian structures satisfying the Minimizing Sard conjecture. In particular, we show that complete sub-Riemannian structures associated with distributions of co-rank 2 or generic distributions of rank \ge 2 satisfy the Minimizing Sard conjecture.

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@article{arxiv.2302.02660,
  title  = {Subdifferentials and Minimizing Sard Conjecture in Sub-Riemannian Geometry},
  author = {L Rifford},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.02660},
  year   = {2023}
}
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