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Program Systems: Theory and Applications, 2015 Volume 6, Issue 2, Pages 45–61 (Mi ps168)

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Optimization Methods and Control Theory

On the free Carnot (2,3,5,8) group

J.-P. Gauthiera, Yu. L. Sachkovb

a Laboratoire des Sciences de l’Information et des Systèmes, UMR, CNRS, France
b Ailamazyan Program System Institute of RAS

Abstract: We consider the free nilpotent Lie algebra $L$ with 2 generators, of step 4, and the corresponding connected simply connected Lie group $G$, with the aim to study the left-invariant sub-Riemannian structure on $G$ defined by the generators of $L$ as an orthonormal frame.
We compute two vector field models of $L$ by polynomial vector fields in $\mathbb{R}^8$, and find an infinitesimal symmetry of the sub-Riemannian structure. Further, we compute explicitly the product rule in $G$ and the right-invariant frame on $G$.

Key words and phrases: sub-Riemannian geometry, Carnot group.

UDC: 517.977

MSC: 53C17

Received: 26.04.2015
Accepted: 20.05.2015

Language: English



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