A monster tower approach to Goursat multi-flags

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2012.06.005zbMATH Open1262.58003arXiv1107.4145OpenAlexW2091111719WikidataQ115356704 ScholiaQ115356704MaRDI QIDQ714435FDOQ714435

Authors: Wyatt C. Howard, Alex L. Castro 

Publication date: 11 October 2012

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

Abstract: We consider here the problem of classifying orbits of an action of the dif- feomorphism group of 3-space on a tower of fibrations with P2-fibers that generalize the Monster Tower due to Montgomery and Zhitomirskii. As a corollary we give the first steps towards the problem of classifying Goursat 2-flags of small length. In short, we classify the orbits within the first four levels of the Monster Tower and show that there is a total of 34 orbits at the fourth level in the tower.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.4145

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zbMATH Keywords

prolongationGoursat multi-flagsSemple tower

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vector distributions (subbundles of the tangent bundles) (58A30) Normal forms on manifolds (58K50) Pfaffian systems (58A17)

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