%0 Journal Article %J SIAM J. Control Optim., 50 (2012) 559–582 %D 2012 %T On 2-step, corank 2 nilpotent sub-Riemannian metrics %A Davide Barilari %A Ugo Boscain %A Jean-Paul Gauthier %X 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. %B SIAM J. Control Optim., 50 (2012) 559–582 %I Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics %G en %U http://hdl.handle.net/1963/6065 %1 5950 %2 Mathematics %3 Functional Analysis and Applications %4 -1 %$ Submitted by Andrea Wehrenfennig (andreaw@sissa.it) on 2012-08-01T12:38:52Z\\nNo. of bitstreams: 1\\n1105.5766v2.pdf: 271835 bytes, checksum: 0836f63f262f14fbd4d44422b6c85686 (MD5) %R 10.1137/110835700