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Geodesics and Shortest Arcs of Some Sub-Riemannian Metrics on the Lie Groups \( \operatorname{SU}(1,1)\times 𝕉 \) and \( \operatorname{SO}_{0}(2,1)\times 𝕉 \) with Three-Dimensional Generating Distributions

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We find geodesics, shortest arcs, cut loci, and first conjugate loci for some left-invariant sub-Riemannian metrics on the Lie groups \( \operatorname{SU}(1,1)\times 𝕉 \) and \( \operatorname{SO}_{0}(2,1)\times 𝕉 \).

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The author thanks Professor V.N. Berestovskii for useful discussions and remarks.

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The work was carried out in the framework of the State Task to the Sobolev Institute of Mathematics (Project FWNF–2022–0003).

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Translated from Sibirskii Matematicheskii Zhurnal, 2024, Vol. 65, No. 2, pp. 295–317. https://doi.org/10.33048/smzh.2024.65.206

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Zubareva, I.A. Geodesics and Shortest Arcs of Some Sub-Riemannian Metrics on the Lie Groups \( \operatorname{SU}(1,1)\times 𝕉 \) and \( \operatorname{SO}_{0}(2,1)\times 𝕉 \) with Three-Dimensional Generating Distributions. Sib Math J 65, 295–315 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1134/S003744662402006X

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