Geometric approach to Goursat flags

DOI10.1016/S0294-1449(01)00076-2zbMath1013.58004MaRDI QIDQ5945802

Richard Montgomery, Michail Zhitomirskii

Publication date: 2 July 2003

Published in: Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré. Analyse Non Linéaire (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://www.numdam.org/item?id=AIHPC_2001__18_4_459_0

zbMATH Keywords

distributionCartan prolongationGoursat flagGoursat singularity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Singularities of vector fields, topological aspects (58K45) Vector distributions (subbundles of the tangent bundles) (58A30)

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