Mathematics – Metric Geometry
Scientific paper
2007-06-25
Mathematics
Metric Geometry
Scientific paper
In this paper I explain what is a pair of dilatation structures, one looking down to another. Such a pair of dilatation structures leads to the intrinsic definition of a distribution as a field of topological filters. To any pair of dilatation structures there is an associated notion of differentiability which generalizes the Pansu differentiability. This allows the introduction of the Radon-Nikodym property for dilatation structures, which is the straightforward generalization of the Radon-Nikodym property for Banach spaces. After an introducting section about length metric spaces and metric derivatives, is proved that for a dilatation structure with the Radon-Nikodym property the length of absolutely continuous curves expresses as an integral of the norms of the tangents to the curve, as in Riemannian geometry. Further it is shown that Radon-Nikodym property transfers from any "upper" dilatation structure looking down to a "lower" dilatation structure, theorem \ref{ttransfer}. Im my opinion this result explains intrinsically the fact that absolutely continuous curves in regular sub-Riemannian manifolds are derivable almost everywhere, as proved by Margulis-Mostow, Pansu (for Carnot groups) or Vodopyanov.
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