Riemannian Geometry of the Free Step-Two Carnot Group
摘要
The purpose of this paper is to give a complete description of some basic Riemannian objects on the free step-two Carnot group N3,2. The author first finds out all the conjugate points along any geodesic starting from o by means of calculating the Jacobian determinant of the Riemannian exponential map. Next, the author determines the cut locus and the explicit expression of the squared distance d2(g). Moreover, the author obtains the optimal syntheses from o and proves that the first conjugate point coincides with the cut point.