Partial extensions of jets and the polar distribution on Grassmannians of non-maximal integral elements

DOI10.1016/J.JDE.2015.10.028MaRDI QIDQ897827zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 7 December 2015

Published in Journal of Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.4460

exterior differential systems geometry of PDEs jet spaces

Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15) Geometric theory, characteristics, transformations in context of PDEs (35A30) General topics in partial differential equations (35A99) Local submanifolds (53B25) Differential topology (57R99) Differentiable manifolds, foundations (58A05) Exterior differential systems (Cartan theory) (58A15) Pfaffian systems (58A17) Jets in global analysis (58A20) Vector distributions (subbundles of the tangent bundles) (58A30) Natural bundles (58A32) Calculus on manifolds; nonlinear operators (58C99) Partial differential equations on manifolds; differential operators (58J99)

Abstract: We study an intrinsic distribution, called polar, on the space of

l

-dimensional integral elements of the higher order contact structure on jet spaces. The main result establishes that this exterior differential system is the prolongation of a natural system of PDEs, named pasting conditions, on sections of the bundle of partial jet extensions. Informally, a partial jet extension is a

k

th order jet with additional

k + 1

st order information along

l

of the

n

possible directions. A choice of partial extensions of a jet into all possible

l

-directions satisfies the pasting conditions if the extensions coincide along pairwise intersecting

l

-directions. We further show that prolonging the polar distribution once more yields the space of

(l, n)

-dimensional integral flags with its double fibration distribution. When

l > 1

the exterior differential system is holonomic, stabilizing after one further prolongation. The proof starts form the space of integral flags, constructing the tower of prolongations by reduction.

Review text

The paper is devoted to the study of an intrinsic distribution, called polar, on the space of \(l\)-dimensional integral elements of the higher order contact structure on jet spaces. The main result establishes that this exterior differential system is the prolongation of a natural system of PDEs, named pasting conditions, on sections of the bundle of partial jet extensions. Informally, a partial jet extension is a \(k\)th order jet with additional \((k+1)\)st order information along \(l\) of the \(n\) possible directions. A choice of partial extensions of a jet into all possible \(l\)-directions satisfies the pasting conditions if the extensions coincide along pairwise intersecting \(l\)-directions. It is further shown that prolonging the polar distribution once more yields the space of \((l,n)\)-dimensional integral flags with its double fibration distribution. When \(l > 1\) the exterior differential system is holonomic, stabilizing after one further prolongation.

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