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Dennis The, A Cartan-theoretic Perspective on (2,3,5)-distributions
Dennis The, A Cartan-theoretic Perspective on (2,3,5)-distributions
Speaker Dennis The UiT The Arctic University of Norway Generic rank 2 distributions on 5-manifolds, i.e. "(2,3,5)-distributions", are interesting geometric structures arising in the study of non-holonomic systems, underdetermined ODE of Monge type, conformal 5-manifolds with special holonomy, etc. The origins of their study date to Élie Cartan's "5-variables" paper of 1910, where …