On the existence of a universal germ of deformations for elliptic pseudogroup structures on compact manifolds

Moolgavkar, Suresh H.

doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-1975-0458515-6

On the existence of a universal germ of deformations for elliptic pseudogroup structures on compact manifolds
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Abstract:

The purpose of this paper is to prove the existence of a versal germ of deformations for elliptic pseudogroup structures on compact manifolds. Under suitable restrictions, the versal germ is shown to be universal.

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