Extension conjecture for holomorphic Engel plane fields
Let be a complex manifold and let be a subset of complex codimension at least two. A holomorphic Engel -plane field is a holomorphic -plane field satisfying the Engel bracket-generating condition. The Engel extension conjecture. Holomorphic Engel -plane fields extend holomorphically across subsets of complex codimension at least two as holomorphic -plane fields, and across subsets of complex codimension at least three as holomorphic Engel -plane fields. Examples show that the Engel condition need not extend across codimension-two subsets, so the stronger codimension-three threshold is essential to the claim.
References
Primary source
Benjamin McKay, “Extension Phenomena for Holomorphic Geometric Structures”, arXiv:0812.2353 (2009).
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