@article {BARILARI2017118,
	title = {Curvature terms in small time heat kernel expansion for a model class of hypoelliptic H{\"o}rmander operators},
	journal = {Nonlinear Analysis},
	volume = {164},
	year = {2017},
	pages = {118 - 134},
	abstract = {<p>We consider the heat equation associated with a class of second order hypoelliptic H{\"o}rmander operators with constant second order term and linear drift. We completely describe the small time heat kernel expansions on the diagonal giving a geometric characterization of the coefficients in terms of the divergence of the drift field and the curvature-like invariants of the optimal control problem associated with the diffusion operator.</p>},
	keywords = {Curvature, Hypoelliptic heat equation, Small time asymptotics},
	issn = {0362-546X},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.na.2017.09.002},
	url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0362546X17302298},
	author = {Davide Barilari and Elisa Paoli}
}
@article {agrachev2016volume,
	title = {Volume geodesic distortion and Ricci curvature for Hamiltonian dynamics},
	journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.08745},
	year = {2016},
	author = {Andrei A. Agrachev and Davide Barilari and Elisa Paoli}
}
@article {2013,
	title = {The curvature: a variational approach},
	number = {arXiv:1306.5318;},
	year = {2013},
	note = {88 pages, 10 figures, (v2) minor typos corrected, (v3) added sections
  on Finsler manifolds, slow growth distributions, Heisenberg group},
	institution = {SISSA},
	abstract = {The curvature discussed in this paper is a rather far going generalization of
the Riemannian sectional curvature. We define it for a wide class of optimal
control problems: a unified framework including geometric structures such as
Riemannian, sub-Riemannian, Finsler and sub-Finsler structures; a special
attention is paid to the sub-Riemannian (or Carnot-Caratheodory) metric spaces.
Our construction of the curvature is direct and naive, and it is similar to the
original approach of Riemann. Surprisingly, it works in a very general setting
and, in particular, for all sub-Riemannian spaces.},
	keywords = {Crurvature, subriemannian metric, optimal control problem},
	url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/7226},
	author = {Andrei A. Agrachev and Davide Barilari and Luca Rizzi}
}
@article {2012,
	title = {On 2-step, corank 2 nilpotent sub-Riemannian metrics},
	journal = {SIAM J. Control Optim., 50 (2012) 559{\textendash}582},
	number = {arXiv:1105.5766;},
	year = {2012},
	publisher = {Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics},
	abstract = {In this paper we study the nilpotent 2-step, corank 2 sub-Riemannian metrics\\r\\nthat are nilpotent approximations of general sub-Riemannian metrics. We exhibit optimal syntheses for these problems. It turns out that in general the cut time is not equal to the first conjugate time but has a simple explicit expression. As a byproduct of this study we get some smoothness properties of the spherical Hausdorff measure in the case of a generic 6 dimensional, 2-step corank 2 sub-Riemannian metric.},
	doi = {10.1137/110835700},
	url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/6065},
	author = {Davide Barilari and Ugo Boscain and Jean-Paul Gauthier}
}
@article {2012,
	title = {A formula for Popp\'s volume in sub-Riemannian geometry},
	journal = {Analysis and Geometry in Metric Spaces, vol. 1 (2012), pages : 42-57},
	number = {arXiv:1211.2325;},
	year = {2012},
	note = {16 pages, minor revisions},
	publisher = {SISSA},
	abstract = {For an equiregular sub-Riemannian manifold M, Popp\'s volume is a smooth\r\nvolume which is canonically associated with the sub-Riemannian structure, and\r\nit is a natural generalization of the Riemannian one. In this paper we prove a\r\ngeneral formula for Popp\'s volume, written in terms of a frame adapted to the\r\nsub-Riemannian distribution. As a first application of this result, we prove an\r\nexplicit formula for the canonical sub-Laplacian, namely the one associated\r\nwith Popp\'s volume. Finally, we discuss sub-Riemannian isometries, and we prove\r\nthat they preserve Popp\'s volume. We also show that, under some hypotheses on\r\nthe action of the isometry group of M, Popp\'s volume is essentially the unique\r\nvolume with such a property.},
	keywords = {subriemannian, volume, Popp, control},
	doi = {10.2478/agms-2012-0004},
	url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/6501},
	author = {Luca Rizzi and Davide Barilari}
}
@article {2012,
	title = {On the Hausdorff volume in sub-Riemannian geometry},
	journal = {Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations. Volume 43, Issue 3-4, March 2012, Pages 355-388},
	number = {arXiv:1005.0540;},
	year = {2012},
	publisher = {SISSA},
	abstract = {For a regular sub-Riemannian manifold we study the Radon-Nikodym derivative\r\nof the spherical Hausdorff measure with respect to a smooth volume. We prove\r\nthat this is the volume of the unit ball in the nilpotent approximation and it\r\nis always a continuous function. We then prove that up to dimension 4 it is\r\nsmooth, while starting from dimension 5, in corank 1 case, it is C^3 (and C^4\r\non every smooth curve) but in general not C^5. These results answer to a\r\nquestion addressed by Montgomery about the relation between two intrinsic\r\nvolumes that can be defined in a sub-Riemannian manifold, namely the Popp and\r\nthe Hausdorff volume. If the nilpotent approximation depends on the point (that\r\nmay happen starting from dimension 5), then they are not proportional, in\r\ngeneral.},
	doi = {10.1007/s00526-011-0414-y},
	url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/6454},
	author = {Andrei A. Agrachev and Davide Barilari and Ugo Boscain}
}
@article {2012,
	title = {Introduction to Riemannian and sub-Riemannian geometry},
	number = {SISSA;09/2012/M},
	year = {2012},
	institution = {SISSA},
	url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/5877},
	author = {Andrei A. Agrachev and Davide Barilari and Ugo Boscain}
}
@article {2012,
	title = {Sub-Riemannian structures on 3D Lie groups},
	journal = {Journal of Dynamical and Control Systems. Volume 18, Issue 1, January 2012, Pages 21-44},
	number = {arXiv:1007.4970;},
	year = {2012},
	publisher = {SISSA},
	abstract = {<p>We give a complete classification of left-invariant sub-Riemannian structures on three dimensional Lie groups in terms of the basic differential invariants. As a corollary we explicitly find a sub-Riemannian isometry between the nonisomorphic Lie groups $SL(2)$ and $A^+(\mathbb{R})\times S^1$, where $A^+(\mathbb{R})$ denotes the group of orientation preserving affine maps on the real line.</p>},
	doi = {10.1007/s10883-012-9133-8},
	url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/6453},
	author = {Andrei A. Agrachev and Davide Barilari}
}
@mastersthesis {2011,
	title = {Invariants, volumes and heat kernels in sub-Riemannian geometry},
	year = {2011},
	school = {SISSA},
	abstract = {Sub-Riemannian geometry can be seen as a generalization of Riemannian geometry under non-holonomic constraints. From the theoretical point of view, sub-Riemannian geometry is the geometry underlying the theory of hypoelliptic operators (see [32, 57, 70, 92] and references therein) and many problems of geometric measure theory (see for instance [18, 79]). In applications it appears in the study of many mechanical problems (robotics, cars with trailers, etc.) and recently in modern  elds of research such as mathematical models of human behaviour, quantum control or motion of self-propulsed micro-organism (see for instance [15, 29, 34])\\r\\nVery recently, it appeared in the  eld of cognitive neuroscience to model the\\r\\nfunctional architecture of the area V1 of the primary visual cortex, as proposed by Petitot in [87, 86], and then by Citti and Sarti in [51]. In this context, the sub-Riemannian heat equation has been used as basis to new applications in image reconstruction (see [35]).},
	keywords = {Sub-Riemannian geometry},
	url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/6124},
	author = {Davide Barilari}
}
