Construction of an Engel manifold with trivial automorphism group

Developing Maps and Engel Automorphisms

A completely nonintegrable $2$-dimensional distribution on a $4$-manifold is called an Engel structure. A $4$-manifold with an Engel structure is called an Engel manifold. The developing map for an Engel manifold is very important tool to determine the Engel structure. Montgomery used it to prove that an Engel automorphism is determined by the values on a global slice. Moreover, Montgomery constructed Engel manifolds whose automorphism group is small. In this paper, we prove that the automorphism group of an Engel manifold is embedded into the automorphism group of the Cartan prolongation of a…

Engel structures with trivial characteristic foliations

Engel structures on M x S^1 and M x I are studied in this paper, where M is a 3-dimensional manifold. We suppose that these structures have characteristic line fields parallel to the fibres, S^1 or I. It is proved that they are characterized by contact structures on the cross section M, the twisting numbers, and Legendrian foliations on both ends M x dI in the case of M x I.

Engel structures on complex surfaces

We classify complex surfaces $(M,\,J)$ admitting Engel structures $\mathcal{D}$ which are complex line bundles. Namely we prove that this happens if and only if $(M,\,J)$ has trivial Chern classes. We construct examples of such Engel structures by adapting a construction due to Geiges. We also study associated Engel defining forms and define a unique splitting of $TM$ associated with $\mathcal{D}$ $J$-Engel.

$\mathbb{C}^3$ 的 Engel CR 子流形

Engel CR submanifolds of $\mathbb{C}^3$

本文给出了3维流形上$\mathbb{S}^1$丛浸入或嵌入$\mathbb{C}^3$且复切定义Engel结构的充分条件，构造了首批复切为Engel的紧子流形实例，回答了Y. Eliashberg的问题。