Abstract:
This paper is an overview of the work of the authors about generalized polynomial curves and splines on Riemannian manifolds. The emphasis is put on the variational approach that gives rise to such curves, and on the Hamiltonian formulation for the cubic case.
The work of Margarida Camarinha was partially supported by the Centre for Mathematics of the
University of Coimbra, project UIDB/00324/2020, funded by the Portuguese Government through
FCT/MCTES. Fátima Silva Leite acknowledges Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
(FCT-Portugal) and COMPETE 2020 program for the financial support to the project
UIDP/00048/2020.
Citation:
Margarida Camarinha, Fátima Silva Leite, Peter E. Crouch, “High-Order Splines on Riemannian Manifolds”, Optimal Control and Dynamical Systems, Collected papers. On the occasion of the 95th birthday of Academician Revaz Valerianovich Gamkrelidze, Trudy Mat. Inst. Steklova, 321, Steklov Math. Inst., Moscow, 2023, 172–193; Proc. Steklov Inst. Math., 321 (2023), 158–178