Geometric approach to Goursat flags
Montgomery, Richard ; Zhitomirskii, Michail1
1 Technion, Department of Mathematics, 32000 Haifa (Israël)
Annales de l'I.H.P. Analyse non linéaire, Tome 18 (2001) no. 4, pp. 459-493.
Montgomery, Richard  ; Zhitomirskii, Michail 1

1 Technion, Department of Mathematics, 32000 Haifa (Israël) 
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