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Rigidity of integral curves of rank 2 distributions

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Research supported in part by NSF Grant DMS-9205222, an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship, and the Institute for Advanced Study

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Bryant, R.L., Hsu, L. Rigidity of integral curves of rank 2 distributions. Invent Math 114, 435–461 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01232676

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