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H\"ormander's condition for normal bundles on spaces of immersions

Differential Geometry 2015-11-19 v1

Abstract

Several representations of geometric shapes involve quotients of mapping spaces. The projection onto the quotient space defines two sub-bundles of the tangent bundle, called the horizontal and vertical bundle. We investigate in these notes the sub-Riemannian geometries of these bundles. In particular, we show for a selection of bundles which naturally occur in applications that they are either bracket generating or integrable.

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@article{arxiv.1511.05883,
  title  = {H\"ormander's condition for normal bundles on spaces of immersions},
  author = {Martin Bauer and Philipp Harms},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.05883},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

4 pages. (2015). Proceedings of Math On The Rocks Shape Analysis Workshop in Grundsund. Zenodo