On local integrability conditions of jet groupoids

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Abstract: A Jet groupoid R_q over a manifold X is a special Lie groupoid consisting of q-jets of local diffeomorphisms from X to X. As a subbundle of the q-th order jet bundle of the trivial bundle X times X, a jet groupoid can be considered as a nonlinear system of partial differential equations (PDE). This leads to the concept of formal integrability. On the other hand, each jet groupoid is the symmetry groupoid of a geometric object, modelled as a section of a natural bundle. Using the jet groupoids, we give a local characterisation of formal integrability for transitive jet groupoids in terms of their corresponding geometric objects.


Lie introduced pseudogroups aiming at the decision of equivalence via differential invariants. Two streams followed Lie's ideas. One is the approach via coframe initiated by Cartan. The other is \textit{E. Vessiot}'s [Ann. de l'Éc. Norm. (3) 20, 411--451 (1903; JFM 34.0183.02)], which was rediscovered by \textit{J. F. Pommaret} [Systems of partial differential equations and Lie pseudogroups. With a preface by Andre Lichnerowicz. Mathematics and its Applications. Vol. 14. New York-London-Paris: Gordon and Breach Science Publishers (1978; Zbl 0401.58006)]. The final aim of the author is to bring Vessiot's approach to the same level as Cartan's. The principal result of this paper is a local characterization of formal integrability for transitive jet groupoids in terms of their corresponding geometric objects.





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