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In this paper we study the local geometry of Carnot manifolds in a neighborhood of a singular point in the case when horizontal vector fields are 2M-smooth. Here M is the depth of a Carnot manifold.
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Original Russian Text © S.V. Selivanova, 2011, published in Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii. Matematika, 2011, No. 8, pp. 94–97.
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Selivanova, S.V. The local geometry of Carnot manifolds at singular points. Russ Math. 55, 81–84 (2011). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1066369X11080135
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