Points and curves in the monster tower

DOI10.1090/S0065-9266-09-00598-5zbMATH Open1187.58006MaRDI QIDQ3405378FDOQ3405378

M. Zhitomirskii, Richard Montgomery

Publication date: 12 February 2010

Published in: Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

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zbMATH Keywords

blow-upprolongationsGoursat distributionsjet-identification numberLegendrian curve singularities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential invariants (local theory), geometric objects (53A55) Vector distributions (subbundles of the tangent bundles) (58A30) Normal forms on manifolds (58K50) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to global analysis (58-02) Pfaffian systems (58A17)

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