On Gromov's theory of rigid transformation groups: a dual approach

DOI10.1017/S0143385700000511MaRDI QIDQ4495005zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Abdelghani Zeghib

Publication date 30 January 2001

Published in Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9803038

zbMATH Keywords

distributionrigiditytransformation groupaffine connectionFrobenius theoremaffine manifoldpartial differential relations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(G)-structures (53C10) Noncompact Lie groups of transformations (57S20)

Abstract: Geometric problems are usually formulated by means of (exterior) differential systems. In this theory, one enriches the system by adding algebraic and differential constraints, and then looks for regular solutions. Here we adopt a dual approach, which consists to enrich a plane field, as this is often practised in control theory, by adding brackets of the vector fields tangent to it, and then, look for singular solutions of the obtained distribution. We apply this to the isometry problem of rigid geometric structures.

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