Existence h-principle for Engel structures
Symplectic Geometry
2015-07-23 v2
Abstract
In this article we prove that the inclusion of the space of Engel structures of a smooth -fold into the space of full flags of its tangent bundle induces surjections in all homotopy groups. In particular, we construct Engel structures representing any given full flag.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1507.05342,
title = {Existence h-principle for Engel structures},
author = {Roger Casals and Jose Luis Pérez and Álvaro del Pino and Francisco Presas},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.05342},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
21 pages, 7 figures