arXiv · 2402.19164
Horizontal semiconcavity for the square of Carnot-Carath\'eodory distance on step 2 Carnot groups and applications to Hamilton-Jacobi equations
Abstract
We show that the square of Carnot-Carath\'eodory distance from the origin, in step 2 Carnot groups, enjoys the horizontal semiconcavity (h-semiconcavity) everywhere in the group including the origin. We first give a proof in the case of ideal Carnot groups, based on the simple group structure as well as estimates for the Euclidean semiconcavity. Our proof of the general result involves more geometric properties of step 2 Carnot groups. We further apply our h-semiconcavity result to show h-semiconcavity of the viscosity solutions to a class of non-coercive evolutive Hamilton-Jacobi equations by using the Hopf-Lax formula associated to the Carnot-Carath\'eodory metric.
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Federica Dragoni, Qing Liu, Ye Zhang. 2024-02-29. Horizontal semiconcavity for the square of Carnot-Carath\'eodory distance on step 2 Carnot groups and applications to Hamilton-Jacobi equations. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6544%2Fadb930
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