Local metric properties of level surfaces on Carnot–Caratheodory spaces

For level sets of -mappings of Carnot manifolds to Carnot–Caratheodory spaces, we introduce an adequate local metric characteristic. Moreover, for mappings defined on Carnot groups, we construct a special adapted basis in the preimage such that it assigns a suitable local sub-Riemannian structure on a complement of a kernel of a sub-Riemannian differential to the initial sub-Riemannian structure in the image.