A monster tower approach to Goursat multi-flags

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2012.06.005MaRDI QIDQ714435zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Wyatt C. Howard, Alex L. Castro

Publication date 11 October 2012

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

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

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)

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.

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