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Symmetric (2,3,5) distributions, an interesting ODE of 7th order and Plebanski metric

Differential Geometry 2016-08-04 v2

Abstract

We show that the unique 7th order ODE having 10 contact symmetries appears naturally in the theory of generic 2-distributions in dimension five.

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@article{arxiv.1302.1910,
  title  = {Symmetric (2,3,5) distributions, an interesting ODE of 7th order and Plebanski metric},
  author = {Daniel An and Pawel Nurowski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.1910},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

In this version we added Section 4, which shows that Noth's equation is a common feature of G2 flatness for twistor distributions coming from Plebanski second heavenly metrics