Characteristic vector fields of generic distributions of corank 2

DOI10.1016/j.anihpc.2007.05.006zbMath1154.53018MaRDI QIDQ1001976

Bronislaw Jakubczyk, Fernand Pelletier, Wojciech Kryński

Publication date: 20 February 2009

Published in: Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré. Analyse Non Linéaire (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/78838

zbMATH Keywords

abnormal curves; generic distributions; singular curves; characteristic vector fields; tangent distributions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

58A17: Pfaffian systems

53C40: Global submanifolds

53C15: General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.)

53D10: Contact manifolds (general theory)

58K50: Normal forms on manifolds

53C17: Sub-Riemannian geometry

58A30: Vector distributions (subbundles of the tangent bundles)