Semiintegrable almost Grassmann structures教程.pdf

Differential Geometry and its Applications 10 (1999) 257-294 North-Holland Semiintegrable almost Grassmann structures* M.A. Akivis’ Department ofMathematics,Jerusalem College sf Technology - Mahnn Lev, 21 Havaad. Halewni St.. P0.B. 16031, Jerusalem 91160, Israel V.V. Goldberg’ Department of Mathematics. New Jersey Inst. of Technology, Universily Heights, Newark, NJ 07102. USA Communicated by A. Gray Received 1September 1997 Abstract: In the present paper we study locally semiflat (we also call them semiintegrable) almost Grassmant- structures. We establish necessary and sufficient conditions for an almost Grassmann structure to be (Y-ot p-semiintegrable. These conditions are expressed in terms of the fundamental tensors of almost Grassmanri structures. Since we are not able to prove the existence of locally semiflat almost Grassmann structures in the general case. we give many examples of a- and ,%semiintegrable structures, mostly four-dimensional For all examples we find systems of differential equations of the families of integral submanifolds V, and Vp of the distributions A, and Ab of plane elements associated with an almost Grassmann structure. For somt examples we were able to integrate these systems and find closed form equations of submanifolds Vu and 1,‘~ Keywords: Almost Grassmann structure, locally semiintegrable, locally semiflat, webs. .vS c,lrssiJicLltion: 53A40, 53A60. 0. Introduction In the paper [2] (see also the book [ 1, Ch. 71) the authors constructed the real