Characterizations of Hamiltonian geodesics in sub-riemannian geometry

Journal of Dynamical and Control Systems

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 391-418

  Alcheikh, M ^a   Orro, P ^a   Pelletier, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

Author keywords

Abnormal geodesic; Distributions; Hamiltonian geodesic; Nilpotent Lie groups; Sub Riemannian geometry

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

ABNORMAL GEODESICS; HAMILTONIAN GEODESICS; NILPOTENT LIE GROUPS; SUB RIEMANNIAN GEOMETRY;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY;

EID: 0031190212     PISSN: 10792724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02463257     Document Type: Article

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