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In this article, we discuss three topics in the area of sub-Riemannian geometry and analysis.
Mathematics Subject Classification (2000). Primary 11M36; Secondary 35P10, 53D50
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Bauer, W., Furutani, K., Iwasaki, C. (2011). Spectral Analysis and Geometry of Sub-Laplacian and Related Grushin-type Operators. In: Demuth, M., Schulze, BW., Witt, I. (eds) Partial Differential Equations and Spectral Theory. Operator Theory: Advances and Applications(), vol 211. Springer, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-0024-2_4
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