Abstract
We prove that the sub-Riemannian exponential map is not injective in any neighbourhood of certain critical points. Namely that it does not behave like the injective map of reals given by f(x)=x3 near its critical point x=0. As a consequence, we characterise conjugate points in ideal sub-Riemannian manifolds in terms of the metric structure of the space. The proof uses the Hilbert invariant integral of the associated variational problem.
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