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

Review text

An Engel structure is a smooth non-integrable plane field on a 4-manifold. Engel structures arise for example as generic germs of plane fields on \(\mathbb{R}^4\). In [\textit{M. Kazarian}, \textit{R. Montgomery} and \textit{B. Shapiro}, Pac. J. Math. 179, 355--370 (1997; Zbl 0895.58004)] one finds the following proposition, attributed to V. Gershkovich: Proposition: An orientable 4-manifold which admits an orientable Engel structure has trivial tangent bundle. The main result of the author's thesis announced in this note is the converse of the proposition above: Theorem: Every 4-manifold \(M\) with trivial tangent bundle admits an orientable Engel structure. The author discusses this theorem. Detailed proofs will be published elsewhere.

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