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On a Certain Sub-Riemannian Geodesic Flow on the Heisenberg Group. / Agapov, S. V.; Borchashvili, M. R.
In: Siberian Mathematical Journal, Vol. 58, No. 6, 01.11.2017, p. 943-951.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - On a Certain Sub-Riemannian Geodesic Flow on the Heisenberg Group
AU - Agapov, S. V.
AU - Borchashvili, M. R.
PY - 2017/11/1
Y1 - 2017/11/1
N2 - Under study is an integrable geodesic flow of a left-invariant sub-Riemannian metric for a right-invariant distribution on the Heisenberg group. We obtain the classification of the trajectories of this flow. There are a few examples of trajectories in the paper which correspond to various values of the first integrals. These trajectories are obtained by numerical integration of the Hamiltonian equations. It is shown that for some values of the first integrals we can obtain explicit formulae for geodesics by inverting the corresponding Legendre elliptic integrals.
AB - Under study is an integrable geodesic flow of a left-invariant sub-Riemannian metric for a right-invariant distribution on the Heisenberg group. We obtain the classification of the trajectories of this flow. There are a few examples of trajectories in the paper which correspond to various values of the first integrals. These trajectories are obtained by numerical integration of the Hamiltonian equations. It is shown that for some values of the first integrals we can obtain explicit formulae for geodesics by inverting the corresponding Legendre elliptic integrals.
KW - geodesic flow
KW - left-invariant metric
KW - sub-Riemannian geometry
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85042150619&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1134/S0037446617060039
DO - 10.1134/S0037446617060039
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85042150619
VL - 58
SP - 943
EP - 951
JO - Siberian Mathematical Journal
JF - Siberian Mathematical Journal
SN - 0037-4466
IS - 6
ER -
ID: 9952436