Variational aspects of the geodesics pro
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Paolo Piccione; Daniel V. Tausk
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Article
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2001
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Elsevier Science
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English
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We study the local geometry of the space of horizontal curves with endpoints freely varying in two given submanifolds P and Q of a manifold M endowed with a distribution D โ T M. We give a different proof, that holds in a more general context, of a result by Bismut [Large Deviations and the Malliavi