Involutive distributions and dynamical systems of second-order type

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2011.08.003MaRDI QIDQ645475zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Tom Mestdag, Mike Crampin

Publication date 15 November 2011

Published in Differential Geometry and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.2935

zbMATH Keywords

almost tangent structureaffine bundleinvolutive distributionsecond-order differential equation field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric methods in ordinary differential equations (34A26) Linear and affine connections (53B05) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Vector distributions (subbundles of the tangent bundles) (58A30)

Abstract: We investigate the existence of coordinate transformations which bring a given vector field on a manifold equipped with an involutive distribution into the form of a second-order differential equation field with parameters. We define associated connections and we give a coordinate-independent criterion for determining whether the vector field is of quadratic type. Further, we investigate the underlying global bundle structure of the manifold under consideration, induced by the vector field and the involutive distribution.

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