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A Coarea Formula for Smooth Contact Mappings of Carnot–Carathéodory Spaces Full article

Journal Acta Applicandae Mathematicae
ISSN: 0167-8019 , E-ISSN: 1572-9036
Output data Year: 2013, Volume: 128, Number: 1, Pages: 67-111 Pages count : 45 DOI: 10.1007/s10440-013-9822-7
Tags Carnot manifold · Differentiability · Coarea formula · Level set
Authors Karmanova M. 1 , Vodopyanov S. 1
Affiliations
1 Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia

Abstract: We prove the coarea formula for sufficiently smooth contact mappings of Carnot manifolds to Carnot–Carathéodory spaces. In particular, we investigate level surfaces of these mappings, and compare Riemannian and sub-Riemannian measures on them. Our main tool is the sharp asymptotic behavior of the Riemannian measure of the intersection of a tangent plane to a level surface and a sub-Riemannian ball. This calculation in particular implies that the sub-Riemannian measure of the set of characteristic points (i.e., the points at which the sub-Riemannian differential is degenerate) equals zero on almost every level set.
Cite: Karmanova M. , Vodopyanov S.
A Coarea Formula for Smooth Contact Mappings of Carnot–Carathéodory Spaces
Acta Applicandae Mathematicae. 2013. V.128. N1. P.67-111. DOI: 10.1007/s10440-013-9822-7 WOS Scopus РИНЦ OpenAlex
Dates:
Submitted: Oct 25, 2011
Accepted: Mar 15, 2026
Published online: Apr 11, 2026
Identifiers:
≡ Web of science: WOS:000326802700004
≡ Scopus: 2-s2.0-84888370050
≡ Elibrary: 23971275
≡ OpenAlex: W2007727155
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