A gauss-bonnet-like formula on two-dimensional almost-riemannian manifolds

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 801-822

  Agrachev, Andrei ^a   Boscain, Ugo ^a,b   Sigalotti, Mario ^c  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ HENRI POINCARÉ NANCY 1   (France)

Author keywords

Conjugate points; Gauss Bonnet formula; Generalized Riemannian geometry; Grushin plane; Optimal control; Rank varying distributions

Indexed keywords

EID: 44849132955     PISSN: 10780947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/dcds.2008.20.801     Document Type: Article

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