A Primer on Carnot Groups: Homogenous Groups, Carnot-Carathéodory Spaces, and Regularity of Their Isometries

By Enrico Le Donne. 2018

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: Carnotgroupsaredistinguishedspacesthatarerichofstructure:theyarethoseLiegroupsequipped with a path distance that is invariant by left-translations of the group and admit automorphisms that are dilations with respect to the distance. We present the basic theory of Carnot groups together with several remarks. We consider them as special cases of graded groups and as homogeneous metric spaces. We discuss the regularity of isometries in the general case of Carnot-Carathéodory spaces and of nilpotent metric Lie groups.

Subfields: Applied Mathematics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Mathematical Physics

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