Not all sub-Riemannian minimizing geodesics are smooth
Abstract
A longstanding open question in sub-Riemannian geometry is the following: are sub-Riemannian length minimizers smooth? We give a negative answer to this question, exhibiting an example of a C2 but not C3 length-minimizer of a real-analytic (even polynomial) sub-Riemannian structure.
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