3-nets with maximal family of two-dimensional subnets (Q1187150)

The author continues his study of the geometry of 3-webs on a smooth manifold \(M\), \(\dim M = 2r\) and uses the notation and the terminology of his earlier papers [Aequationes Math. 35, 31--44 (1988; Zbl 0644.53013) and Arch. Math. 53, 411--413 (1989; Zbl 0696.53008)]. For a general 3-web the leaves of different foliations of the 3-web have at most one point of intersection in a web domain. A 3-web is called a 3-net if the leaves of different foliations of the 3-web have exactly one point of intersection in a web domain. In the paper under review the author studies differential 3-nets which are globalized versions of multidimensional transversally geodesic and hexagonal 3-webs. M. A. Akivis characterized the latter two classes of 3-webs by means of curvature tensor identities for the Chern affine connection associated with a 3-web [see \textit{M. A. Akivis}, Tr. Geom. Semin. 2, 7--31 (1969; Zbl 0244.53014)]. Akivis also gave another necessary and sufficient condition for these two classes of 3-webs which is the existence of local one-parameter subloops or subgroups, respectively, in each tangent direction at the identity in local coordinate loops [see \textit{M. A. Akivis}, Sov. Math., Dokl. 10, 1200--1203 (1969); translation from Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR 188, No. 5, 967--970 (1969; Zbl 0205.02601)]. The author discusses Akivis' conditions for two classes of 3-nets indicated above.