Horizontal loops in Engel space

DOI10.1007/S00208-008-0235-2MaRDI QIDQ943355zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hansjörg Geiges

Publication date 9 September 2008

Published in Mathematische Annalen (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0801.0049

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10) Specialized structures on manifolds (spin manifolds, framed manifolds, etc.) (57R15) Embeddings in differential topology (57R40) Immersions in differential topology (57R42) Vector distributions (subbundles of the tangent bundles) (58A30)

Abstract: A simple proof is given of the following result first observed by J. Adachi: embedded circles tangent to the standard Engel structure on Euclidean 4-space are classified, up to isotopy via such embeddings, by their rotation number.

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