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math.DG2018
Aerodynamics of flying saucers
Michael Eastwood, Pawel Nurowski
We identify various structures on the configuration space C of a flying saucer, moving in a three-dimensional smooth manifold M. Always C is a five-dimensional contact manifold. If…
math.DG2018
Aerobatics of flying saucers
Michael Eastwood, Pawel Nurowski
Starting from the observation that a flying saucer is a nonholonomic mechanical system whose 5-dimensional configuration space is a contact manifold, we show how to enrich this spa…
math.DG2018
The geometry of marked contact Engel structures
Gianni Manno, Pawel Nurowski, Katja Sagerschnig
A contact twisted cubic structure (M,C,S) is a 5-dimensional manifold M together with a contact distribution C and a bundle S of twisted cubics that is compatible with the conforma…