Heat content and horizontal mean curvature on the Heisenberg group

We identify the short time asymptotics of the sub-Riemannian heat content for a smoothly bounded domain in the first Heisenberg group. Our asymptotic formula generalizes prior work by van den Berg–Le Gall and van den Berg–Gilkey to the sub-Riemannian context, and identifies the first few coe?cients in the sub-Riemannian heat content in terms of the horizontal perimeter and the total horizontal mean curvature of the boundary. The proof is probabilistic, and relies on a characterization of the heat content in terms of Brownian motion.     

Sub-Riemannian Curvature in Contact Geometry

We compare different notions of curvature on contact sub-Riemannian manifolds. In particular, we introduce canonical curvatures as the coefficients of the sub-Riemannian Jacobi equation. The main result is that all these coefficients are encoded in the asymptotic expansion of the horizontal derivatives of the sub-Riemannian distance. We explicitly compute their expressions in terms of the standard tensors of contact geometry. As an application of these results, we obtain a sub-Riemannian version of the Bonnet–Myers theorem that applies to any contact manifold.     

Complete stable CMC surfaces with empty singular set in Sasakian sub-Riemannian 3-manifolds

For constant mean curvature surfaces of class C ² immersed inside Sasakian sub-Riemannian 3-manifolds we obtain a formula for the second derivative of the area which involves horizontal analytical terms, the Webster scalar curvature of the ambient manifold, and the extrinsic shape of the surface. Then we prove classification results for complete surfaces with empty singular set which are stable, i.e., second order minima of the area under a volume constraint, inside the 3-dimensional sub-Riemannian space forms. In the first Heisenberg group we show that such a surface is a vertical plane. In the sub-Riemannian hyperbolic 3-space we give an upper bound for the mean curvature of such surfaces, and we characterize the horocylinders as the unique ones with squared mean curvature 1. Finally we deduce that any complete surface with empty singular set in the sub-Riemannian 3-sphere is unstable.     

Quasiregular Mappings on Sub-Riemannian Manifolds

We study mappings on sub-Riemannian manifolds which are quasiregular with respect to the Carnot–Carathéodory distances and discuss several related notions. On H-type Carnot groups, quasiregular mappings have been introduced earlier using an analytic definition, but so far, a good working definition in the same spirit is not available in the setting of general sub-Riemannian manifolds. In the present paper we adopt therefore a metric rather than analytic viewpoint. As a first main result, we prove that the sub-Riemannian lens space admits nontrivial uniformly quasiregular (UQR) mappings, that is, quasiregular mappings with a uniform bound on the distortion of all the iterates. In doing so, we also obtain new examples of UQR maps on the standard sub-Riemannian spheres. The proof is based on a method for building conformal traps on sub-Riemannian spheres using quasiconformal flows, and an adaptation of this approach to quotients of spheres. One may then study the quasiregular semigroup generated by a UQR mapping. In the second part of the paper we follow Tukia to prove the existence of a measurable conformal structure which is invariant under such a semigroup. Here, the conformal structure is specified only on the horizontal distribution, and the pullback is defined using the Margulis–Mostow derivative (which generalizes the classical and Pansu derivatives).     

On the Whitney extension property for continuously differentiable horizontal curves in sub-Riemannian manifolds

In this article we study the validity of the Whitney \(C^1\) extension property for horizontal curves in sub-Riemannian manifolds that satisfy a first-order Taylor expansion compatibility condition. We first consider the equiregular case, where we show that the extension property holds true whenever a suitable non-singularity property holds for the endpoint map on the Carnot groups obtained by nilpotent approximation. We then discuss the case of sub-Riemannian manifolds with singular points and we show that all step-2 manifolds satisfy the \(C^1\) extension property. We conclude by showing that the \(C^1\) extension property implies a Lusin-like approximation theorem for horizontal curves on sub-Riemannian manifolds.     

Area formulas for classes of Hölder continuous mappings of Carnot groups

We prove area formulas for classes of the mappings that are Hölder continuous in the sub-Riemannian sense and defined on nilpotent graded groups. Moreover, in one of the model cases, we establish an area formula for calculating the initial measure and a measure close to it.     

Measures of transverse paths in sub-Riemannian geometry

We define a class of lengths of paths in a sub-Riemannian manifold. It includes the length of horizontal paths but also measures the length of transverse paths. It is obtained by integrating an infinitesimal measure which generalizes the norm on the tangent space. This requires the definition and the study of the metric tangent space (in Gromov's sense). As an example, we compute those measures in the case of contact sub-Riemannian manifolds.     

Application of Nilpotent Approximation and the Orbit Method to the Search of the Diagonal Asymptotics of Sub-Riemannian Heat Kernels

Siberian Mathematical Journal - We propose a general scheme for the search of a fundamental solution to the hypoelliptic diffusion equation in a “sufficiently good” sub-Riemannian...     

Some results for the q-Bernoulli and q-Euler polynomials

We show some results for the q-Bernoulli and q-Euler polynomials. The formulas in series of the Carlitz's q-Stirling numbers of the second kind are also considered. The q-analogues of well-known formulas are derived from these results.     

Horizontal Connection and Horizontal Mean Curvature in Carnot Groups

In this paper we give a geometric interpretation of the notion of the horizontal mean curvature which is introduced by Danielli Garofalo-Nhieu and Pauls who recently introduced sub- Riemannian minimal surfaces in Carnot groups. This will be done by introducing a natural nonholonomic connection which is the restriction （projection） of the natural Riemannian connection on the horizontal bundle. For this nonholonomic connection and （intrinsic） regular hypersurfaces we introduce the notions of the horizontal second fundamental form and the horizontal shape operator. It turns out that the horizontal mean curvature is the trace of the horizontal shape operator.     

On the sub-Riemannian geodesic flow for the Goursat distribution

Under consideration is the sub-Riemannian geodesic flow for the Goursat distribution. We find the level surfaces of the first integrals that are in involution and study the trajectories in the phase space whose projections to the horizontal plane are closed curves.     

A 2-adic formula for Bernoulli numbers of the second kind and for the Nörlund numbers

We give a formula expressing Bernoulli numbers of the second kind as 2-adically convergent sums of traces of algebraic integers. We use this formula to prove and explain the formulas and conjectures of Adelberg concerning the initial 2-adic digits of these numbers. We also give analogous results for the Nörlund numbers.     

THE GEOMETRY OF HYPERSURFACES IN A KAEHLER MANIFOLD

Let M be a complex analytic manifOld there is given a positive definite quadratic differentialform[1]dS2 = gjkdZJdZ* (1)where the Latin indices j, k take the values 1,2,' l n; 1, 2,' t n. Assume the Greek indices o, Ptake the value8 1,2,', n and.=. l cr if i= al = 1 cr if i= a, (2)t cr if i = cr.Assume now that the symmetric tensor gjk is selfadoint(see below Definitioll l), that is-- --gap = g95 = go0 = g9rr, (3)g.0 = gPcr = gap = g05. (4)and 8atisfiesgoP = gap = 0. (5)From the com…     

Accessible domains in the Heisenberg group

We study the problem of accessibility of boundary points for domains in the sub-Riemannian setting of the first Heisenberg group. A sufficient condition for accessibility is given. It is a Dini-type continuity condition for the horizontal gradient of the defining function. The sharpness of this condition is shown by examples.

     

第二类曲线(面)积分的向量学习法再探

以通量概念引入第二类曲面积分、以环流量概念引入第二类曲线积分,并用向量形式表达高斯公式、斯托克斯公式等关系,以期达到第二类曲线(面)积分部分的知识点符号表达简明、计算和公式容易记忆的目的.     

Extremal Controls in the Sub-Riemannian Problem on the Group of Motions of Euclidean Space

For the sub-Riemannian problem on the group of motions of Euclidean space we present explicit formulas for extremal controls in the special case where one of the initial momenta is fixed.     

Sub-Riemannian geometry of the coefficients of univalent functions

We consider coefficient bodies Mn for univalent functions. Based on the Löwner-Kufarev parametric representation we get a partially integrable Hamiltonian system in which the first integrals are Kirillov's operators for a representation of the Virasoro algebra. Then Mn are defined as sub-Riemannian manifolds. Given a Lie-Poisson bracket they form a grading of subspaces with the first subspace as a bracket-generating distribution of complex dimension two. With this sub-Riemannian structure we construct a new Hamiltonian system to calculate regular geodesics which turn to be horizontal. Lagrangian formulation is also given in the particular case M₃.     

A topological splitting theorem for sub-Riemannian manifolds

We prove an analogue of the Cheeger–Gromoll splitting theorem for sub-Riemannian manifolds with the measure contraction property instead of the nonnegativity of the Ricci curvature. If such a sub-Riemannian manifold contains a straight line, then the manifold splits diffeomorphically, where the splitting is not necessarily isometric. We prove that such a sub-Riemannian manifold containing a straight line cannot split isometrically under some typical condition in sub-Riemannian geometry. Heisenberg groups are such examples.     

On a Step 2(k + 1) sub-Riemannian manifold

We compute the sub-Riemannian distance for a Step 2(k + 1) sub-Riemannian manifold from the origin to any given point. We characterize the number of sub-Riemannian geodesics between the origin and any other point.     

Non-embedding theorems of nilpotent Lie groups and sub-Riemannian manifolds

Wo prove that there do not exist quasi-isometric embeddings of connected nonabelian nilpotent Lie groups equipped with left invariant Riemannian metrics into a metric measure space satisfying the curvature-dimension condition RCD(Q,N)with N∈R and N>1.In fact,we can prove that a sub-Riemannian manifold whose generic degree of nonholonomy is not smaller than 2 cannot be bi-Lipschitzly embedded in any Banach space with the Radon-Nikodym property.We also get that every regular sub-Riemannian manifold do not satisfy the curvature-dimension condition CD(K,N),where K,N∈R and N>1.Along the way to the proofs,we show that the minimal weak upper gradient and the horizontal gradient coincide on the Carnot-Caratheodory spaces which may have independent interests.