Rigid paths of generic 2-distributions with degenerate points on 3-manifolds
Volume 92 / 2002
Colloquium Mathematicum 92 (2002), 161-178
MSC: 58A17, 58A30, 53C15.
DOI: 10.4064/cm92-2-2
Abstract
We study rigid paths of generic $2$-distributions with degenerate points on $3$-manifolds. A complete description of such paths is obtained. For the proof, we construct separating surfaces of paths admissible for distributions.