Efficient construction of contact coordinates for partial prolongations

DOI10.1007/S10208-004-0148-8zbMATH Open1102.58001arXivmath/0406234OpenAlexW2035500967MaRDI QIDQ2431801FDOQ2431801

Authors: Peter J. Vassiliou 

Publication date: 24 October 2006

Published in: Foundations of Computational Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $CV$ be a vector field distribution on manifold $M$. We give an efficient algorithm for the construction of local coordinates on $M$ such that $CV$ may be locally expressed as some partial prolongation of the contact distribution $Cal{C}_q^{(1)}$, on the first order jet bundle of maps from $BbbR$ to $Bbb{R}^q$, $qgeq1$. It is proven that if $CV$ is locally equivalent to a partial prolongation of $Cal{C}_q^{(1)}$ then the explicit construction of contact coordinates algorithmically depends upon the determination of certain first integrals in a sequence of geometrically defined and algorithmically determined integrable Pfaffian systems on $M$. The number of these first integrals that must be computed satisfies a natural minimality criterion. These results therefore provide a full and constructive generalisation of the classical Goursat normal form from the theory of exterior differential systems.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0406234

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zbMATH Keywords

exterior differential systemsefficient algorithmPfaffian systemnonlinear control theorygeneralisation of the Goursat normal formvector field distributionBrunovský normal forms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exterior differential systems (Cartan theory) (58A15) Vector distributions (subbundles of the tangent bundles) (58A30) Linearizations (93B18) Geometric methods (93B27) Pfaffian systems (58A17)

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