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Projective invariants of linear 3-webs and Gronwall's Conjecture

Differential Geometry 2019-03-05 v2

Abstract

We present a projectively invariant description of planar linear 3-webs. For a non-hexagonal 3-web, we introduce family of projective torsion-free Cartan connections, the web leaves being geodesics for each member of the family, and give a web linearization criterion. Finally, we propose an algorithm for resolving the Gronwall conjecture and illustrate this approach by proving the conjecture for 3-webs whose 2 foliations are 2 pencils of lines.

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@article{arxiv.1708.01996,
  title  = {Projective invariants of linear 3-webs and Gronwall's Conjecture},
  author = {Sergey I. Agafonov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.01996},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

The previous versions have a crucial computational error, making the construction of "counterexamples" invalid