Maurer-Cartan equation in the DGLA of graded derivations

Abstract: Let M be a smooth manifold and

P h i

a differential 1-form on M with values in the tangent bundle TM. We construct canonical solutions

e_{P} h i

of Maurer-Cartan equation in the DGLA of graded derivations D*(M) of differential forms on M by means of deformations of d depending on

P h i

. This yields to a classification of the canonical solutions of the Maurer-Cartan equation according to their type:

e_{P} h i

is of finite type r if there exists

r i n N

such that

P h i^{r} [P h i, P h i]_{F N} = 0

and r is minimal with this property, where

[., .]_{F N}

is the Fr"olicher-Nijenhuis bracket. A distribution

x i s u b s e t T M

of codimension k > 1 is integrable if and only if the canonical solution

e_{P} h i

associated to the endomorphism

P h i

of TM which is trivial on

x i

and equal to the identity on a complement of

x i

in TM is of finite type

l e q 1

, respectively of finite type 0 if k = 1.

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