Distributions of corank 1 and their characteristic vector fields

Transactions of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 355, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 2857-2883

  Jakubczyk, B ^a,b   Zhitomirskii, M ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Contact structure; Equivalence; Homotopy method; Invariants; Line field; Pfaff equation; Quasi contact structure; Singularity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037790975     PISSN: 00029947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9947-03-03248-3     Document Type: Article

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