Existence h-principle for Engel structures

Abstract

In this article we prove that the inclusion of the space of Engel structures of a smooth 4-fold into the space of full flags of its tangent bundle induces surjections in all homotopy groups. In particular, we construct Engel structures representing any given full flag.

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