Seminar series
Date
Tue, 12 Jun 2018
Time
15:00 -
16:15
Location
C2
Speaker
Prof Jan Slovak
Organisation
Brno
We present the linearized metrizability problem in the context of parabolic geometries and subriemannian geometry, generalizing the metrizability problem in projective geometry studied by R. Liouville in 1889. We give a general method for linearizability and a classification of all cases with irreducible defining distribution where this method applies. These tools lead to natural subriemannian metrics on generic distributions of interest in geometric control theory.