2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/121595The notion of horizontal energy minimizers between C-C spaces is introduced. We prove existence of such energy minimizers when the domain is a $C^{2}$, noncharacteristic bounded open set in a C-C space and the target is a C-C space of Carnot type.29 pagesAnalysis of PDEs58E20; 49N60; 53C22text