Flexibility for tangent and transverse immersions in Engel manifolds

DOI10.1007/S13163-018-0277-2zbMATH Open1432.53080arXiv1609.09306OpenAlexW2964032443WikidataQ129249239 ScholiaQ129249239MaRDI QIDQ668264FDOQ668264

Francisco Presas, Álvaro del Pino

Publication date: 19 March 2019

Published in: Revista Matemática Complutense (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this article we study immersions of the circle that are tangent to an Engel structure $mathcalD$. We show that a full $h$-principle does exist as soon as one excludes the closed orbits of $mathcalW$, the kernel of $mathcalD$. This is sharp: we elaborate on work of Bryant and Hsu to show that curves tangent to $mathcalW$ often conform additional isolated components that cannot be detected at a formal level. We then show that this is an exceptional phenomenon: if $mathcalD$ is generic, curves tangent to $mathcalW$ are not isolated anymore. We then go on to show that a full $h$-principle holds for immersions transverse to the Engel structure.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.09306

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zbMATH Keywords

horizontal curveEngel structureh-principle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Global submanifolds (53C40) Vector distributions (subbundles of the tangent bundles) (58A30)

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