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Sub-Riemannian Balls on the Heisenberg Groups: An Invariant Volume

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The Popp measure of a sub-Riemannian ball is calculated for a left-invariant sub-Riemannian structure on the Heisenberg group.

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Correspondence to E. F. Sachkova.

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Translated from Sovremennaya Matematika. Fundamental’nye Napravleniya (Contemporary Mathematics. Fundamental Directions), Vol. 42, Proceedings of the International Conference on Mathematical Control Theory and Mechanics (Suzdal, Russia, 3–7 July, 2009), Part 1, 2011.

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Sachkova, E.F. Sub-Riemannian Balls on the Heisenberg Groups: An Invariant Volume. J Math Sci 199, 583–587 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10958-014-1885-0

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