Maps tangent to a distribution #
A map f : N โ M is horizontal for a distribution D on M, or tangent to D, when every
tangent image df_y(T_y N) lies in D (f y) (TauCeti.IsHorizontalMap). Integral manifolds
(TauCeti.IsIntegralManifold) are the immersions whose tangent images are all of D; horizontal
maps only ask for containment, so they include horizontal curves of sub-Riemannian geometry and,
for a contact structure, the isotropic maps. The source is an arbitrary charted space and f
need not be injective. The differential is mfderiv, which is 0 where f is not
differentiable, so the predicate is meaningful for differentiable maps.
Main declarations #
TauCeti.IsHorizontalMap: maps whose tangent images lie in a distribution.TauCeti.IsHorizontalMap.comp: precomposing a horizontal map keeps it horizontal.TauCeti.IsHorizontalMap.eventually_sub_mem: coordinates whose differential takes the distribution into a closed subspace are locally constant modulo that subspace along horizontal differentiable maps.TauCeti.isHorizontalMap_comp_diffeomorph_iff,TauCeti.isHorizontalMap_diffeomorph_comp_iff: independence of the parametrization and transport by diffeomorphisms preserving the distributions.
References #
- J. M. Lee, Introduction to Smooth Manifolds, 2nd ed., Springer GTM 218 (2013), Proposition 19.16, p. 500 (local containment in a slice).
A map f : N โ M is horizontal for a distribution D, or tangent to D, when every
tangent image df_y(T_y N) lies in D (f y). For a contact structure D these are the
isotropic maps; when f is moreover a smooth immersion, it parametrizes an immersed isotropic
submanifold.
The tangent image is taken with mfderiv, which is 0 at points where f is not
differentiable, so there the condition holds trivially.
Instances For
A map is horizontal exactly when every tangent image lies in the distribution.
The tangent images of a horizontal map lie in the distribution.
A map is horizontal exactly when its differential sends every tangent vector into the distribution.
The differential of a horizontal map takes values in the distribution.
A map horizontal for a smaller distribution is horizontal for a larger one.
Precomposing a horizontal map with a map g keeps it horizontal, wherever g and f are
differentiable, since the tangent image of f โ g lies in that of f.
Independence of the parametrization. Precomposing with a diffeomorphism of the source does not change whether a map is horizontal.
Transport by diffeomorphisms. If the differential of a diffeomorphism ฯ : M โ P carries
the distribution D onto the distribution D', then ฯ โ f is horizontal for D' exactly when
f is horizontal for D.
Along a horizontal differentiable map, coordinates are locally constant modulo any closed subspace containing the coordinate image of the distribution.