Size of Tangencies to Non-involutive
Distributions
Cornel Pintea
Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Abstract:
By the classical Frobenius Theorem, a distribution
is completely integrable if and only if it is involutive. In this talk,
we investigate the size of tangencies of submanifolds with
respect to a given non-involutive distribution. We provide esti-
mates for the size of the tangency set in terms of its Hausdorff
dimension. This generalises earlier works by Derridj and the first
author. Our results apply in the setting of contact and symplectic
structures as well as of Carnot groups. We illustrate the sharpness
of our estimates by a wide range of examples and round the paper
off with additional comments and open questions.