On Horizontal Distributions on the Tangent Bundle of a Differentiable Manifold

DOI10.1112/jlms/s2-3.1.178zbMath0215.51003OpenAlexW1997172138MaRDI QIDQ5618734

Mike Crampin

Publication date: 1971

Published in: Journal of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1112/jlms/s2-3.1.178

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamics induced by flows and semiflows (37C10) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Vector distributions (subbundles of the tangent bundles) (58A30)

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