Shortest paths for sub-Riemannian metrics on rank-two distributions
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Publication:4861546
DOI10.1090/memo/0564zbMath0843.53038OpenAlexW2063235932MaRDI QIDQ4861546
Wensheng Liu, Héctor J. Sussmann
Publication date: 13 February 1996
Published in: Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/d7672d282c2c2f85719fbafcf7a28fab056312e4
Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to differential geometry (53-02) Optimality conditions for problems involving ordinary differential equations (49K15) Vector distributions (subbundles of the tangent bundles) (58A30)
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