Canonical connection and a geometric proof of the Frobenius theorem

2025/04/27 by Yu, Chengjie
#Differential Geometry (math.DG) #FOS: Mathematics

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2504.19092

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a new canonical connection on Riemannian manifold with a distribution. Moreover, as an application of the connection, we give a geometric proof of the Frobenius theorem.

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