A construction of Engel structures

DOI10.1016/J.CRMA.2004.11.011MaRDI QIDQ1763527zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Thomas Vogel

Publication date 22 February 2005

Published in Comptes Rendus. Mathématique. Académie des Sciences, Paris (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crma.2004.11.011

zbMATH Keywords

4-manifoldEngel structuretrivial tangent bundle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Vector distributions (subbundles of the tangent bundles) (58A30) Specialized structures on manifolds (spin manifolds, framed manifolds, etc.) (57R15) Vector fields, frame fields in differential topology (57R25)

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• Holomorphic Engel structures
• Germs of Engel structures along 3-manifolds
• Flexibility for tangent and transverse immersions in Engel manifolds
• Engel structures with trivial characteristic foliations
• Non-isotopic transverse tori in Engel manifolds
• Equivalence classes of fields of \(2\)-planes and two kinds of almost complex structures on compact four-dimensional manifolds
• Existence of Engel structures
• Engel structures and weakly hyperbolic flows on four-manifolds

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