Regularity of subFinsler spheres in Carnot groups

Let GG_\infty be the asymptotic cone, equipped with its Pansu limit metric dd_\infty, and let a Riemannian distance on GG_\infty be fixed. The unit sphere is the boundary of

Bd(id,1)={gG:d(id,g)1}.B_{d_\infty}(\operatorname{id},1)=\{g\in G_\infty:d_\infty(\operatorname{id},g)\leqslant 1\}.

Regularity conjecture. The unit sphere of dd_\infty is rectifiable with respect to every Riemannian distance on GG_\infty. In particular, if GG_\infty has topological dimension nn, then the sphere has finite (n1)(n-1)-dimensional Lebesgue measure. This remains open for general Carnot groups and is proposed because such regularity would imply the desired volume asymptotics for the associated Stoll metric.

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Emmanuel Breuillard and Enrico Le Donne, “On the rate of convergence to the asymptotic cone for nilpotent groups and subFinsler geometry”, arXiv:1204.1613 (2012).

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