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A construction of Engel structures
Comptes Rendus. Mathématique, Volume 340 (2005) no. 1, pp. 43-48.

Every 4-manifold with trivial tangent bundle admits an Engel structure.

Toute variété de dimension 4 dont le fibré tangent est trivial admet une structure d'Engel.

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DOI: 10.1016/j.crma.2004.11.011

Thomas Vogel 1

1 Mathematisches Institut der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Theresien Strasse 39, 80333 München, Germany
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