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Math 6510 • Differentiable Manifolds

Winter 2006 • Question 5

  1. State the Frobenius integrability theorem.
  2. Show that the plane field in \(\mathbb {R}^3\) spanned by the vector fields \[ X=\frac {\partial }{\partial x}+z\frac {\partial }{\partial y} \qquad \text {and}\qquad Y=\frac {\partial }{\partial z} \] is not integrable on any nonempty open subset of \(\mathbb {R}^3\).

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\begin{enumerate}
\item State the Frobenius integrability theorem.
\item Show that the plane field in \(\mathbb{R}^3\) spanned by the vector fields
\[
  X=\frac{\partial}{\partial x}+z\frac{\partial}{\partial y}
  \qquad\text{and}\qquad
  Y=\frac{\partial}{\partial z}
\]
is not integrable on any nonempty open subset of \(\mathbb{R}^3\).
\end{enumerate}