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Some Involutive Structures in Analysis and Geometry

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Analysis and Geometry in Several Complex Variables

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An involutive structure on a smooth manifold is a complex subbundle T 0,1 of the complexified tangent bundle, closed under Lie bracket: [T 0,1,T 0,1] ⊆ T 0,1. For the general theory see [6, 16, 25]. Here are some examples.

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  1. Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, 5005

    Michael Eastwood (ARC Senior Research Fellow)

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560, Japan

    Gen Komatsu

  2. Department of Mathematics, Columbia University, New York, NY, 10027, USA

    Masatake Kuranishi

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Eastwood, M. (1999). Some Involutive Structures in Analysis and Geometry. In: Komatsu, G., Kuranishi, M. (eds) Analysis and Geometry in Several Complex Variables. Trends in Mathematics. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2166-1_2

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