Two-dimensional almost-Riemannian structures with tangency points

Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincare (C) Analyse Non Lineaire

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 793-807

  Agrachev, A A ^a   Boscain, U ^b   Charlot, G ^c   Ghezzi, R ^a   Sigalotti, M ^d,e  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b CENTRE DE MATHÉMATIQUES APPLIQUÉES   (France)

^c INSTITUT FOURIER   (France)

^d INRIA   (France)

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

SURFACE STRUCTURE;

EULER NUMBERS; GAUSS-BONNET FORMULA; LIE BRACKETS; ORTHONORMAL FRAMES; RIEMANNIAN STRUCTURE; TOPOLOGICAL INVARIANTS; VECTOR BUNDLES; VECTOR FIELDS;

TWO DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 77951255295     PISSN: 02941449     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anihpc.2009.11.011     Document Type: Article

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