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- Maximal Torus
- Curvature Form
- Primary Obstruction
- Principal Fiber Bundle
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Chernjakov, A.G. (1988). Obstructions to the existence of free nonholonomic structure on a smooth manifold. In: Viro, O.Y., Vershik, A.M. (eds) Topology and Geometry — Rohlin Seminar. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1346. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0082776
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