On automorphism groups of some types of generic distributions

Details On automorphism groups of some types of generic distributions On automorphism groups of some types of generic distributions

2008-07-07

arxiv.org/abs/0807.0974v1

Differential Geom. Appl. 27 (2009) 769-779

Mathematics

Differential Geometry

AMSLaTeX, 23 pages

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.difgeo.2009.05.003

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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