Sub-Laplacian comparison theorems on totally geodesic Riemannian foliations
by Fabrice Baudoin, Erlend Grong, Kazumasa Kuwada and Anton Thalmaier


Abstract  
We develop a variational theory of geodesics for the canonical variation of the metric of a totally geodesic foliation. As a consequence, we obtain comparison theorems for the horizontal and vertical Laplacians. In the case of Sasakian foliations, we show that sharp horizontal and vertical comparison theorems for the sub-Riemannian distance may be obtained as a limit of horizontal and vertical comparison theorems for the Riemannian distances approximations.

Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations 58 (2019), no. 4, Art. 130, 33 pp

https://doi.org/10.1007/s00526-019-1570-8

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Fabrice Baudoin
fabrice.baudoin@uconn.edu
Erlend Grong
erlend.grong@math.uib.no
Kazumasa Kuwada
Anton Thalmaier
anton.thalmaier@uni.lu

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