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Involutive distribution

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A smooth distribution is involutive if its local smooth sections are closed under the Lie bracket of vector fields. The Frobenius theorem identifies this algebraic condition with being an integrable distribution.

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  • Coordinate proof of the Frobenius theorem
  • Heisenberg horizontal distribution
  • Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2012 / iii / Paper 17 / 1 / 2 / Solution
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