Remarks on non-maximal integral elements of the Cartan plane in jet spaces (Q741121)

Denote by \(\mathrm{Gr}(n,s)\) the Grassmannian manifold of \(s\)-dimensional vector subspaces of \(L=\mathbb R^n\) and by \(J^k(E,n)\) the space of \(k\)-jets of \(n\)-dimensional submanifolds of an arbitrary \(n+m\)-dimensional manifold \(E\). In the present paper, it is shown that the space of \(s\)-dimensional integral elements of a Cartan plane on \(J^{k-1}(E,n)\) has an affine bundle structure modeled by some bundles over \(\mathrm{Gr}(n,s)\), and it is studied a natural distribution associated with it. As an example it is shown that a third-order nonlinear PDE of Monge-Ampere type is not contact-equivalent to a quasi-linear one.