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Homogeneous Carnot group, its Lie algebra and Carnot-Carathéodory ball

Background: Let the smooth vector fields $X=(X_1,\cdots,X_m)$ define on $\mathbb{R}^n$ and they satisfy the following assumption: (H1): There is a dilation structure $$\delta_{t}:\mathbb{R}^n\to \...
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On the diameter of left-invariant sub-Riemannian structures on a compact Lie group

Let $G$ be a compact connected Lie group with Lie algebra $\mathfrak g$ of dimension $m$. We fix an inner product $\langle\cdot,\cdot\rangle$ on $\mathfrak g$. We may assume (in case is necessary) ...
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Explicit formulas for Carnot-Carathéodory distances on Carnot groups

Let $G$ be a Carnot group (aka stratified group), so that $G$ is a connected and simply connected finite-dimensonal Lie group, whose Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}$ admits a decomposition $\mathfrak{g} = ...
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Difference between the Laplacian and the sub-Laplacian of a Lie group

Given a Lie group $G$, what is the difference between the Laplacian $\Delta$ and the sub-Laplacian $\Delta_{sub}$ of $G$. And what are the properties that we lose when going from sub-Laplace to ...
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