Sub-Riemannian Geometry

Ovidiu Calin is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Eastern Michigan University and a former Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame. He received his Ph.D. in geometric analysis from the University of Toronto in 2000. He has written several monographs and numerous research papers in the field of geometric analysis and has delivered research lectures in several universities in North America, Asia, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe. Der-Chen Chang is Professor of Mathematics at Georgetown University. He is a previous Associate Professor at the University of Maryland and a Visiting Professor at the Academia Sinica, among other institutions. He received his Ph.D. in Fourier analysis from Princeton University in 1987 and has authored several monographs and numerous research papers in the field of geometric analysis, several complex variables, and Fourier analysis.

• Part I. General Theory: 1. Introductory chapter; 2. Basic properties; 3. Horizontal connectivity; 4. Hamilton-Jacobi theory; 5. Hamiltonian formalism; 6. Lagrangian formalism; 7. Connections on sub-Riemannian manifolds; 8. Gauss' theory of sub-Riemannian manifolds; Part II. Examples and Applications: 9. Heisenberg manifolds; 10. Examples of Heisenberg manifolds; 11. Grushin manifolds; 12. Hormander manifolds; Appendix A: local non-solvability; Appendix B: fibre bundles.

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