Questions tagged [sub-riemannian-geometry]

In Montgomery's A Tour of Subriemannian Geometries, Their Geodesics and Applications, problem 10.1 in Chapter 10 asks "Is every minimizing geodesic smooth ?". Can someone explain what are the major ...

Let $\mathbb H$ be Heisenberg group with vector fields $$ X=\partial_x - \frac12y\partial_t,\quad Y=\partial_y + \frac12x\partial_t,\quad T=\partial_t $$ and $U\subset\mathbb H$ is an open set. I am ...

Let $A=(a_{ij})$ be an invertible matrix with real entries $a_{ij}$. We associate to $A$ the $1$-form $\alpha=\sum_i (\sum_j a_{ij}x_j)dx_i$. The distribution $\ker \alpha$ is integrable if and ...