Generalized submersiveness of second-order ordinary differential equations (Q2379754)

Starting from the characterization of submersive second-order ordinary differential equations in its most economical form, that of the existence of a distribution along \(\tau\) which has appropriate invariance properties, the authors show that there is a natural way of relaxing those invariance requirements and give a generalized form of submersiveness in which the quotient system does not preserve its second-order character.