A primer on Carnot groups: homogenous groups, CC spaces, and regularity of their isometries

2016/04/28 by Donne, Enrico Le
#14M17 #22E25 #22F30 #43A80 #53C17 #Differential Geometry (math.DG) #FOS: Mathematics #Group Theory (math.GR) #Metric Geometry (math.MG)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1604.08579

Abstract

Carnot groups are distinguished spaces that are rich of structure: they are those Lie groups equipped 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-Caratheodory spaces and of nilpotent metric Lie groups.

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