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Trudy Mat. Inst. Steklova, 2010 Volume 270, Pages 147–160 (Mi tm3023)

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Families of vector fields which generate the group of diffeomorphisms

Marco Caponigroab

a Institut Èlie Cartan de Nancy UMR 7502, Nancy-Université, CNRS, INRIA, Nancy cedex, France
b SISSA, Trieste, Italy

Abstract: Given a compact manifold $M$ and a family of vector fields $\mathcal F$ such that the group generated by $\mathcal F$ acts transitively on $M$, we prove that the group of all diffeomorphisms of $M$ that are isotopic to the identity is generated by the exponentials of vector fields in $\mathcal F$ rescaled by smooth functions.

UDC: 517.97

Received in March 2009

Language: English


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Proceedings of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics, 2010, 270, 141–155

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