Rigidity of Carnot groups relative to multicontact structures

De Mari, Filippo; Ottazzi, Alessandro

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-10-10212-3

Rigidity of Carnot groups relative to multicontact structures
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Abstract:

We prove a rigidity type result for stratified nilpotent Lie algebras which gives a positive answer to a special case of a conjecture formulated by M. Cowling and of another conjecture formulated by A. Korányi.

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