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Record Nr.

UNINA9910153273203321

Titolo

Geometry, Analysis and Dynamics on sub-Riemannian Manifolds [[electronic resource] ] : Volume I / / Davide Barilari, Ugo Boscain, Mario Sigalotti

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Zuerich, Switzerland, : European Mathematical Society Publishing House, 2016

ISBN

3-03719-662-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (332 pages)

Collana

EMS Series of Lectures in Mathematics (ELM) ; , 2523-5176

Classificazione

53-xx35-xx49-xx60-xx

Soggetti

Differential & Riemannian geometry

Differential geometry

Partial differential equations

Calculus of variations and optimal control; optimization

Probability theory and stochastic processes

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Some topics of geometric measure theory in Carnot groups / Francesco Serra Cassano -- Hypoelliptic operators and some aspects of analysis and geometry of sub-Riemannian spaces / Nicola Garofalo -- Sub-Laplacians and hypoelliptic operators on totally geodesic Riemannian foliations / Fabrice Baudoin.

Sommario/riassunto

Sub-Riemannian manifolds model media with constrained dynamics: motion at any point is only allowed along a limited set of directions, which are prescribed by the physical problem. From the theoretical point of view, sub-Riemannian geometry is the geometry underlying the theory of hypoelliptic operators and degenerate diffusions on manifolds.  In the last twenty years, sub-Riemannian geometry has emerged as an independent research domain, with extremely rich motivations and ramifications in several parts of pure and applied mathematics, such as geometric analysis, geometric measure theory, stochastic calculus and evolution equations together with applications in mechanics, optimal control and biology.  The aim of the lectures collected here is to present sub-Riemannian structures for the use of



both researchers and graduate students.