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Defines conformal submersion with horizontal distribution and provides necessary conditions for its existence.

Study horizontal discs in fat distributions, proving their existence.

Affine and conformal submersions with horizontal distribution are studied in statistical manifolds.

The horizontal Laplacian of a Riemannian submersion with totally geodesic fibers and an integrable horizontal distribution.

The article proves the existence of horizontal immersions into fat distributions and contact structures.

New model for STSs with restricted horizontal gluings, focusing on maximal horizontal cylinders.

We study maximal horizontal subgroups of Carnot groups of Heisenberg type. We classify those of dimension half of that of the canonical distribution ("lagrangians") and illustrate some notable ones of small dimension. An infinitesimal classification of the arbitrary maximal horizontal submanifolds follows as a conseque…

Examples of area-minimizing graphs with low regularity in a specific group.

We prove that the horizontal and vertical distributions of the tangent bundle with the Sasaki metric are isocline, the distributions given by the kernels of the horizontal and vertical lifts of the contact form $ω$ from the Heisenberg manifold $(H_3,g)$ to $(TH_3,g^S)$ are not totally geodesic, and the distributions $F…

Involutivity is a well known necessary condition for integrability of smooth tangent distributions. We show that this condition is still necessary for integrability with Sobolev surfaces. We specialize our study to the left invariant horizontal distribution of the first Heisenberg group $\H^1$. Here we answer a questio…

This work is a short, self-contained introduction to subriemannian geometry with special emphasis on Chow's Theorem. As an application, a regularity result for the Poincaré Lemma is presented. At the beginning, the definitions of a subriemannian geometry, horizontal vector fields and horizontal curves are given. Then t…

We show a higher order integrability theorem for distributions generated by a family of vector fields under a horizontal regularity assumption on their coefficients. We use as chart a class of almost exponential maps which we discuss in details

Given a $C^1$ planes distribution $P_T$ on all ${\mathbb R}^m$ we consider {\em horizontal $α$-harmonic maps}, $α\ge 1/2$, with respect to such a distribution. These are maps $u\in H^α({\mathbb R}^k,{\mathbb R}^m)$ satisfying $P_T\nabla u=\nabla u$ and $P_T(u)(-Δ)^αu=0$ in ${\mathcal D}'({\mathbb R}^k).$ If the distrib…

The paper derives inequalities for Riemannian maps and submersions involving quaternionic space forms.

We consider examples of the $\mathbb H$-type groups with the natural horizontal distribution generated by the commutation relations of the group. In the contrast with the previous studies we furnish the horizontal distribution with the Lorentzian metric, which is nondegenerate metric of index 1 instead of a positive de…

We prove a family of new Weitzenböck formulas on a Riemannian foliation with totally geodesic leaves. These Weitzenböck formulas are naturally parametrized by the canonical variation of the metric. As a consequence, under natural geometric conditions, the horizontal Laplacian satisfies a generalized curvature dimension…

Constructs covariant derivatives for Ehresmann connections.

The excessively increased volume of data in modern data management systems demands an improved system performance, frequently provided by data distribution, system scalability and performance optimization techniques. Optimized horizontal data partitioning has a significant influence of distributed data management syste…

Study variations of Riemannian submersions to maintain geodesic fibers and positive curvatures.

Study cone structures on contact manifolds to understand their geometric properties.

In the present paper we consider generic Sub-Riemannian structures on the co-rank 1 non-holonomic vector distributions and introduce the associated canonical volume and ''horizontal'' area forms. As in the classical case, the Sub-Riemannian minimal surfaces can be defined as the critical points of the '`horizontal'' ar…

The purpose of this paper is to study anti-invariant Riemannian submersions from Kenmotsu manifolds onto Riemannian manifolds. Several fundamental results in this respect are proved. The integrability of the distributions and the geometry of foliations are investigated. We proved that there do not exist (anti-invariant…

Given a smooth manifold $M$ and a totally nonholonomic distribution $Δ\subset TM$ of rank $d$, we study the effect of singular curves on the topology of the space of horizontal paths joining two points on $M$. Singular curves are critical points of the endpoint map $F:γ\mapstoγ(1)$ defined on the space $Ω$ of horizonta…

Invariance principle proved for lifted geodesic walks on Riemannian submersions.

This paper presents an investigation of the relation between some positivity of the curvature and the finiteness of fundamental groups in semi-Riemannian geometry. We consider semi-Riemannian submersions $π: (E, g) \rightarrow (B, -g_{B})$ under the condition with $(B, g_{B})$ Riemannian, the fiber closed Riemannian, …

Using the notion of Levi form of a smooth distribution, we discuss the local and the global problem of existence of one horizontal section of a smooth vector bundle endowed with a horizontal distribution. The analysis will lead to the formulation of a "one-leaf" analogue of the classical Frobenius integrability theorem…

A Carnot group $\mathbb{G}$ admits Lusin approximation for horizontal curves if for any absolutely continuous horizontal curve $γ$ in $\mathbb{G}$ and $\varepsilon>0$, there is a $C^1$ horizontal curve $Γ$ such that $Γ=γ$ and $Γ'=γ'$ outside a set of measure at most $\varepsilon$. We verify this property for free Carno…

For a m-tuple a=(a_1,...,a_m) of positive real numbers, the robot arm of type a in R^d is the map f^a:(S^{d-1})^m -> R^d defined by f^a(z_1,...,z_m) to be the sum of the a_jz_j's. Our aim is to attack the inverse problem via the horizontal liftings for the distribution Delta^a orthogonal to the fibers of f^a. One shows…

We describe explicit horizontal open books on some Seifert fibered 3--manifolds. We show that the contact structures compatible with these horizontal open books are Stein fillable and horizontal as well. Moreover we draw surgery diagrams for some of these contact structures.

We study some sub-Riemannian objects (such as horizontal connectivity, horizontal connection, horizontal tangent plane, horizontal mean curvature) in hypersurfaces of sub-Riemannian manifolds. We prove that if a connected hypersurface in a contact manifold of dimension more than three is noncharacteristic or with isola…

The paper studies critical points of horizontal energy functional in Riemannian foliations.

The study develops inequalities for Riemannian foliations without bundle-like assumptions.

The notion of curvature discussed in this paper is a far going generalization of the Riemannian sectional curvature. It was first introduced by Agrachev, Barilari and Rizzi in arXiv:1306.5318, and it is defined for a wide class of optimal control problems: a unified framework including geometric structures such as Riem…

The complexity of horizontality in twistor spaces on tori is infinite.

The paper generalizes polynomial functions on Lie groups and their properties.

We investigate certain natural connections between subriemannian geometry and hyperbolic dynamical systems. In particular, we study dynamically defined horizontal distributions which split into two integrable ones and ask: how is the energy of a subriemannian geodesic shared between its projections onto the integrable …

We study unit horizontal bundles associated with Riemannian submersions. First we investigate metric properties of an arbitrary unit horizontal bundle equipped with a Riemannian metric of the Cheeger-Gromoll type. Next we examine it from the Gromov-Hausdorff convergence theory point of view, and we state a collapse the…

We describe explicit open books on arbitrary plumbings of oriented circle bundles over closed oriented surfaces. We show that, for a non-positive plumbing, the open book we construct is horizontal and the corresponding compatible contact structure is also horizontal and Stein fillable. In particular, we describe horizo…

We consider $H$(eisenberg)-type groups whose law of left translation gives rise to a bracket generating distribution of step 2. In the contrast with sub-Riemannian studies we furnish the horizontal distribution with a nondegenerate indefinite metric of arbitrary index and investigate the problem concerning causal geode…

Study of CR-submanifolds in various Lorentzian manifolds.

In this paper we adopt the pullback approach to global Finsler geometry. We investigate horizontally recurrent Finsler connections. We prove that for each scalar ($π$)1-form $A$, there exists a unique horizontally recurrent Finsler connection whose $h$-recurrence form is $A$. This result generalizes the existence and u…

Smooth 4-manifolds have simple horizontal decompositions.

We deform a map into a Riemannian manifold that is horizontal with respect to a submersion onto a non-positively curved manifold and satisfies a Chow condition into a harmonic one through a horizontal homotopy.

Study on curvatures of surfaces in specific Lie groups.

Let $M$ be a submanifold of a Riemannian manifold $(N,g)$. $M$ induces a subbundle $O(M,N)$ of adapted frames over $M$ of the bundle of orthonormal frames $O(N)$. Riemannian metric $g$ induces natural metric on $O(N)$. We study the geometry of a submanifold $O(M,N)$ in $O(N)$. We characterize the horizontal distributio…

The study examines constant mean curvature tubes around geodesics in specific 3-manifolds.

Method calculates $\mathbb{Z}_2$-Thurston norm for Seifert 3-manifolds using pseudo-horizontal surfaces.

We determine necessary conditions for a non-horizontal submanifold of a sub-Riemannian stratified Lie group to be of minimal measure. We calculate the first variation of the measure for a non-horizontal submanifold and find that the minimality condition implies the tensor equation $H+σ=0$, where $H$ is analogous to the…