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Microflexiblity and local integrability of horizontal curves

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Abstract

Let ξ be an analytic bracket-generating distribution. We show that the subspace of germs that are singular (in the sense of Control Theory) has infinite codimension within the space of germs of smooth curves tangent to ξ. We formalise this as an asymptotic statement about finite jets of tangent curves. This solves, in the analytic setting, a conjecture of Y. Eliashberg and N.M. Mishachev regarding an earlier claim by M. Gromov about the microflexibility of the tangency condition.
From these statements it follows, by an argument due to M. Gromov, that the h-principle holds for maps and immersions transverse to ξ.
Original languageEnglish
PublisherarXiv
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Publication statusPublished - 30 Sept 2020

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