A canonical frame for nonholonomic rank two distributions of maximal class Academic Article

abstract

• In 1910 E. Cartan constructed the canonical frame and found the most symmetric case for maximally nonholonomic rank 2 distributions in 5. We solve the analogous problems for rank 2 distributions in n for arbitrary n > 5. Our method is a kind of symplectification of the problem and it is completely different from the Cartan method of equivalence. 2006 Acadmie des sciences. Published by Elsevier SAS. All rights reserved.

authors

• Zelenko, Igor

published proceedings

• COMPTES RENDUS MATHEMATIQUE

author list (cited authors)

• Doubrov, B., & Zelenko, I.

citation count

• 8

publication date

• April 2006

publisher

• Cellule MathDoc/CEDRAM  Publisher

keywords

• 49 Mathematical Sciences
• 4901 Applied Mathematics
• 4904 Pure Mathematics

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/j.crma.2006.02.010

start page

• 589

end page

• 594

volume

• 342

issue

• 8

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.crma.2006.02.010