Finite-jet conjecture for small-time local controllability

Let X={X0,X1,,Xm}\mathcal{X}=\{X_0,X_1,\ldots,X_m\} be a real analytic control system on Rn\mathbb{R}^n that is small-time locally controllable from x0x_0. For another real analytic system Y={Y0,Y1,,Ym}\mathcal{Y}=\{Y_0,Y_1,\ldots,Y_m\}, suppose that there is an integer NNN\in\mathbb{N} such that, for every i{0,1,2,,m}i\in\{0,1,2,\ldots,m\}, the derivatives of XiX_i and YiY_i at x0x_0 agree through order NN:

DrXi(x0)=DrYi(x0),r=(r1,,rn)Z0n,j=1nrjN.D^{\mathbf r}X_i(x_0)=D^{\mathbf r}Y_i(x_0),\qquad \forall\mathbf r=(r_1,\ldots,r_n)\in\mathbb{Z}_{\geq 0}^n,\quad \sum_{j=1}^n r_j\leq N.

Finite-jet conjecture. There exists NNN\in\mathbb{N} such that every such system Y\mathcal{Y} is small-time locally controllable from x0x_0. The conjecture asks whether small-time local controllability of a real analytic system can be determined from finitely many derivatives of its vector fields at the initial point. No resolution is supplied in the source.

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Saber Jafarpour, “On small-time local controllability”, arXiv:1604.02432 (2019).

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