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Timeline for Proof of Rashevskii-Chow theorem

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Aug 6, 2020 at 13:51 comment added Mathsfreak I think the answer to my question is that is $|\mathcal{F}|<dim(M)$ we can not find enough linear independent vectorfields in $q_0$
Aug 6, 2020 at 8:32 comment added Mathsfreak Probably my question is why we have to take always different points $q_i$ in each step and can not stay in $q_0$?
Aug 5, 2020 at 13:03 comment added Mathsfreak does your argument mean since $f\vert_ {\Sigma_{2}}$ can not be tangent to $\Sigma_{2}$ everywhere on $\Sigma_{2}$ because then the bracket generation condition in $q_{1}$ would not hold we have to find $q_{2}$ where $f(q_{2})$ is not tangent? I'm just wondering why we can use the generation condition in a different point
Aug 5, 2020 at 11:13 comment added Raziel Assume that, on the contrary, for any $f \in \mathcal{F}$ we have that $f|_{\Sigma_2}$ is tangent to $\Sigma_2$. It follows that any iterated bracket, restricted to $\Sigma_2$, would still be tangent to $\Sigma_2$. This contradicts the bracket generating conditions.
Aug 5, 2020 at 10:54 comment added Mathsfreak I was working with the proof of Agrachev and I did not get yet the connection between the generated Lie Algebra and the differentials of $\phi_{i}$ could someone help me explain line 3 on page 80 why this is a contradiction? Apart of that I got the proof. Thank you all for your help
Aug 4, 2020 at 13:03 vote accept Mathsfreak
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Aug 3, 2020 at 13:05 history answered Raziel CC BY-SA 4.0