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Classification of tangent and transverse knots in bracket-generating distributions

Differential Geometry 2022-10-04 v1

Abstract

Consider a manifold, of dimension greater than 3, equipped with a bracket-generating distribution. In this article we prove complete h-principles for embedded regular horizontal curves and for embedded transverse curves. These results contrast with the 3-dimensional contact case, where the full h-principle for transverse/legendrian knots is known not to hold. We also prove analogous statements for immersions, with no assumptions on the ambient dimension.

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@article{arxiv.2210.00582,
  title  = {Classification of tangent and transverse knots in bracket-generating distributions},
  author = {Javier Martínez-Aguinaga and Álvaro del Pino},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.00582},
  year   = {2022}
}

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