Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4606534 | Differential Geometry and its Applications | 2009 | 11 Pages |
Abstract
To certain types of generic distributions (subbundles in a tangent bundle) one can associate canonical Cartan connections. Many of these constructions fall into the class of parabolic geometries. The aim of this article is to show how strong restrictions on the possibles sizes of automorphism groups of such distributions can be deduced from the existence of canonical Cartan connections. This needs no information on how the Cartan connections are actually constructed and only very basic information on their properties. In particular, we discuss the examples of generic distributions of rank two in dimension five, rank three in dimension six, and rank four in dimension seven.
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Authors
Andreas Čap, Katharina Neusser,