Smooth distributions are finitely generated

DOI10.1007/S10455-011-9287-8MaRDI QIDQ664375zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lance D. Drager, Jeffrey M. Lee, Efton Park, Ken Richardson

Publication date 1 March 2012

Published in Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1012.5641

zbMATH Keywords

vector bundlesdistributionsfoliationssubbundles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foliations in differential topology; geometric theory (57R30) Specialized structures on manifolds (spin manifolds, framed manifolds, etc.) (57R15) Vector fields, frame fields in differential topology (57R25)

Abstract: A subbundle of variable dimension inside the tangent bundle of a smooth manifold is called a smooth distribution if it is the pointwise span of a family of smooth vector fields. We prove that all such distributions are finitely generated, meaning that the family may be taken to be a finite collection. Further, we show that the space of smooth sections of such distributions need not be finitely generated as a module over the smooth functions. Our results are valid in greater generality, where the tangent bundle may be replaced by an arbitrary vector bundle.

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