On the classification of prolongations up to Engel homotopy

DOI10.1090/PROC/13751zbMATH Open1381.53153arXiv1708.00295OpenAlexW2964005155MaRDI QIDQ4596015FDOQ4596015

Authors: Álvaro del Pino 

Publication date: 8 December 2017

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

Abstract: In [CPPP] it was shown that Engel structures satisfy an existence $h$-principle, and the question of whether a full $h$-principle holds was left open. In this note we address the classification problem, up to Engel deformation, of Cartan and Lorentz prolongations. We show that it reduces to their formal data as soon as the turning number is large enough. Somewhat separately, we study the homotopy type of the space of Cartan prolongations, describing completely its connected components in the overtwisted case.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.00295

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zbMATH Keywords

\(h\)-principleEngel structureCartan prolongationLorentzian prolongation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vector distributions (subbundles of the tangent bundles) (58A30) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10)

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