Sub Riemannian Geometry

Author : Andre Bellaiche
Publisher : Birkhäuser
ISBN 13 : 3034892101
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Sub-Riemannian Geometry written by Andre Bellaiche and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sub-Riemannian geometry (also known as Carnot geometry in France, and non-holonomic Riemannian geometry in Russia) has been a full research domain for fifteen years, with motivations and ramifications in several parts of pure and applied mathematics, namely: control theory classical mechanics Riemannian geometry (of which sub-Riemannian geometry constitutes a natural generalization, and where sub-Riemannian metrics may appear as limit cases) diffusion on manifolds analysis of hypoelliptic operators Cauchy-Riemann (or CR) geometry. Although links between these domains had been foreseen by many authors in the past, it is only in recent years that sub- Riemannian geometry has been recognized as a possible common framework for all these topics. This book provides an introduction to sub-Riemannian geometry and presents the state of the art and open problems in the field. It consists of five coherent and original articles by the leading specialists: Andr Bellache: The tangent space in sub-Riemannian geometry Mikhael Gromov: Carnot-Carathodory spaces seen from within Richard Montgomery: Survey of singular geodesics Hctor J. Sussmann: A cornucopia of four-dimensional abnormal sub-Riemannian minimizers Jean-Michel Coron: Stabilization of controllable systems.

Author : Ludovic Rifford
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 331904804X
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Sub-Riemannian Geometry and Optimal Transport written by Ludovic Rifford and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides an introduction to sub-Riemannian geometry and optimal transport and presents some of the recent progress in these two fields. The text is completely self-contained: the linear discussion, containing all the proofs of the stated results, leads the reader step by step from the notion of distribution at the very beginning to the existence of optimal transport maps for Lipschitz sub-Riemannian structure. The combination of geometry presented from an analytic point of view and of optimal transport, makes the book interesting for a very large community. This set of notes grew from a series of lectures given by the author during a CIMPA school in Beirut, Lebanon.

Author : Andrei Agrachev
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110847635X
Total Pages : 765 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book A Comprehensive Introduction to Sub-Riemannian Geometry written by Andrei Agrachev and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 765 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a comprehensive and self-contained introduction to sub-Riemannian geometry and its applications. For graduate students and researchers.

Author : Ovidiu Calin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521897300
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Sub-Riemannian Geometry written by Ovidiu Calin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-20 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive text and reference on sub-Riemannian and Heisenberg manifolds using a novel and robust variational approach.

Author : Luca Capogna
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3764381337
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book An Introduction to the Heisenberg Group and the Sub-Riemannian Isoperimetric Problem written by Luca Capogna and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-08-08 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives an up-to-date account of progress on Pansu's celebrated problem on the sub-Riemannian isoperimetric profile of the Heisenberg group. It also serves as an introduction to the general field of sub-Riemannian geometric analysis. It develops the methods and tools of sub-Riemannian differential geometry, nonsmooth analysis, and geometric measure theory suitable for attacks on Pansu's problem.

Author : Frédéric Jean
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319086901
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Control of Nonholonomic Systems: from Sub-Riemannian Geometry to Motion Planning written by Frédéric Jean and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nonholonomic systems are control systems which depend linearly on the control. Their underlying geometry is the sub-Riemannian geometry, which plays for these systems the same role as Euclidean geometry does for linear systems. In particular the usual notions of approximations at the first order, that are essential for control purposes, have to be defined in terms of this geometry. The aim of these notes is to present these notions of approximation and their application to the motion planning problem for nonholonomic systems.

Author : Richard Montgomery
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN 13 : 0821841653
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book A Tour of Subriemannian Geometries, Their Geodesics and Applications written by Richard Montgomery and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subriemannian geometries can be viewed as limits of Riemannian geometries. They arise naturally in many areas of pure (algebra, geometry, analysis) and applied (mechanics, control theory, mathematical physics) mathematics, as well as in applications (e.g., robotics). This book is devoted to the study of subriemannian geometries, their geodesics, and their applications. It starts with the simplest nontrivial example of a subriemannian geometry: the two-dimensional isoperimetric problem reformulated as a problem of finding subriemannian geodesics. Among topics discussed in other chapters of the first part of the book are an elementary exposition of Gromov's idea to use subriemannian geometry for proving a theorem in discrete group theory and Cartan's method of equivalence applied to the problem of understanding invariants of distributions. The second part of the book is devoted to applications of subriemannian geometry. In particular, the author describes in detail Berry's phase in quantum mechanics, the problem of a falling cat righting herself, that of a microorganism swimming, and a phase problem arising in the $N$-body problem. He shows that all these problems can be studied using the same underlying type of subriemannian geometry. The reader is assumed to have an introductory knowledge of differential geometry. This book that also has a chapter devoted to open problems can serve as a good introduction to this new, exciting area of mathematics.

Author : Leonor Godinho
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319086669
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book An Introduction to Riemannian Geometry written by Leonor Godinho and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-26 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike many other texts on differential geometry, this textbook also offers interesting applications to geometric mechanics and general relativity. The first part is a concise and self-contained introduction to the basics of manifolds, differential forms, metrics and curvature. The second part studies applications to mechanics and relativity including the proofs of the Hawking and Penrose singularity theorems. It can be independently used for one-semester courses in either of these subjects. The main ideas are illustrated and further developed by numerous examples and over 300 exercises. Detailed solutions are provided for many of these exercises, making An Introduction to Riemannian Geometry ideal for self-study.

Author : Peter Petersen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1475764340
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Riemannian Geometry written by Peter Petersen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended for a one year course, this volume serves as a single source, introducing students to the important techniques and theorems, while also containing enough background on advanced topics to appeal to those students wishing to specialise in Riemannian geometry. Instead of variational techniques, the author uses a unique approach, emphasising distance functions and special co-ordinate systems. He also uses standard calculus with some techniques from differential equations to provide a more elementary route. Many chapters contain material typically found in specialised texts, never before published in a single source. This is one of the few works to combine both the geometric parts of Riemannian geometry and the analytic aspects of the theory, while also presenting the most up-to-date research - including sections on convergence and compactness of families of manifolds. Thus, this book will appeal to readers with a knowledge of standard manifold theory, including such topics as tensors and Stokes theorem. Various exercises are scattered throughout the text, helping motivate readers to deepen their understanding of the subject.

Author : Gianna Stefani
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331902132X
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Geometric Control Theory and Sub-Riemannian Geometry written by Gianna Stefani and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honoring Andrei Agrachev's 60th birthday, this volume presents recent advances in the interaction between Geometric Control Theory and sub-Riemannian geometry. On the one hand, Geometric Control Theory used the differential geometric and Lie algebraic language for studying controllability, motion planning, stabilizability and optimality for control systems. The geometric approach turned out to be fruitful in applications to robotics, vision modeling, mathematical physics etc. On the other hand, Riemannian geometry and its generalizations, such as sub-Riemannian, Finslerian geometry etc., have been actively adopting methods developed in the scope of geometric control. Application of these methods has led to important results regarding geometry of sub-Riemannian spaces, regularity of sub-Riemannian distances, properties of the group of diffeomorphisms of sub-Riemannian manifolds, local geometry and equivalence of distributions and sub-Riemannian structures, regularity of the Hausdorff volume, etc.