Flexibility for tangent and transverse immersions in Engel manifolds

DOI10.1007/s13163-018-0277-2zbMath1432.53080arXiv1609.09306OpenAlexW2964032443MaRDI QIDQ668264

Francisco Presas, Álvaro del Pino

Publication date: 19 March 2019

Published in: Revista Matemática Complutense (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.09306

zbMATH Keywords

Engel structurehorizontal curveh-principle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global submanifolds (53C40) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Vector distributions (subbundles of the tangent bundles) (58A30)

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