Geometric approach to Goursat flags

Richard Montgomery; Michail Zhitomirskii[1]

  • [1] Technion, Department of Mathematics, 32000 Haifa (Israël)

Annales de l'I.H.P. Analyse non linéaire (2001)

  • Volume: 18, Issue: 4, page 459-493
  • ISSN: 0294-1449

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Montgomery, Richard, and Zhitomirskii, Michail. "Geometric approach to Goursat flags." Annales de l'I.H.P. Analyse non linéaire 18.4 (2001): 459-493. <http://eudml.org/doc/78528>.

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author = {Montgomery, Richard, Zhitomirskii, Michail},
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keywords = {distribution; Cartan prolongation; Goursat flag; Goursat singularity},
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