Higher order Grassmann fibrations and the calculus of variations.
Infinitesimal automorphisms of distributions
Involutivity degree of a distribution at superdensity points of its tangencies
Let (with ) be vector fields of class in an open set , let be a -dimensional submanifold of and define where is the tangent space to at . Then we expect the following property, which is obvious in the special case when is an interior point (relative to ) of : If is a -density point (relative to ) of then all the iterated Lie brackets of order less or equal to
Kähler manifolds with split tangent bundle
This paper is concerned with compact Kähler manifolds whose tangent bundle splits as a sum of subbundles. In particular, it is shown that if the tangent bundle is a sum of line bundles, then the manifold is uniformised by a product of curves. The methods are taken from the theory of foliations of (co)dimension 1.
Le problème d'équivalence pour les pseudogroupes de Lie : méthodes intrinsèques
Multi-dimensional Cartan prolongation and special k-flags
Since the mid-nineties it has gradually become understood that the Cartan prolongation of rank 2 distributions is a key operation leading locally, when applied many times, to all so-called Goursat distributions. That is those, whose derived flag of consecutive Lie squares is a 1-flag (growing in ranks always by 1). We first observe that successive generalized Cartan prolongations (gCp) of rank k + 1 distributions lead locally to all special k-flags: rank k + 1 distributions D with the derived...
Multifoliations on Open Manifolds.
Natural transformations of second tangent and cotangent functors
Nonholonomic tangent spaces: intrinsic construction and rigid dimensions.
Nonlinear connections and semisprays on tangent manifolds.
On 3-dimensional CR-manifolds
On 3-dimensional Lie algebras of vector fields
On Holomorphic Vector Bundles Over Linearly Concave Manifolds.
On integral manifolds for vector space distributions.
On Tanaka's prolongation procedure for filtered structures of constant type.
On the existence of a codimension 1 completely integrable totally geodesic distribution on a pseudo-Riemannian Heisenberg group.
On the geometry of Goursat structures
A Goursat structure on a manifold of dimension is a rank two distribution such that dim , for , where denote the elements of the derived flag of , defined by and . Goursat structures appeared first in the work of von Weber and Cartan, who have shown that on an open and dense subset they can be converted into the so-called Goursat normal form. Later, Goursat structures have been studied by Kumpera and Ruiz. In the paper, we introduce a new local invariant for Goursat structures, called...
On the Geometry of Goursat Structures
A Goursat structure on a manifold of dimension n is a rank two distribution Ɗ such that dim Ɗ(i) = i + 2, for 0 ≤ i ≤ n-2, where Ɗ(i) denote the elements of the derived flag of Ɗ, defined by Ɗ(0) = Ɗ and Ɗ(i+1) = Ɗ(i) + [Ɗ(i),Ɗ(i)] . Goursat structures appeared first in the work of von Weber and Cartan, who have shown that on an open and dense subset they can be converted into the so-called Goursat normal form. Later, Goursat structures have been studied by Kumpera and Ruiz. In the paper, we introduce...
On the induced geometric object on submanifolds of homogeneous spaces
On the natural operators transforming vector fields to the -th tensor power