The structural invariants of Goursat distributions
Differential Geometry
2025-04-08 v2 Algebraic Geometry
Abstract
This is the first of a pair of papers devoted to the local invariants of Goursat distributions. The study of these distributions naturally leads to a tower of spaces over an arbitrary surface, called the monster tower, and thence to connections with the topic of singularities of curves on surfaces. Here we study those invariants of Goursat distributions akin to those of curves on surfaces, which we call structural invariants. In the subsequent paper we will relate these structural invariants to the small growth invariants.
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@article{arxiv.2308.09101,
title = {The structural invariants of Goursat distributions},
author = {Susan Jane Colley and Gary Kennedy and Corey Shanbrom},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.09101},
year = {2025}
}
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36 pages, 6 figures