The Theorem of Frobenius

Serge Lang
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Serge Lang: Yale University, Department of Mathematics

Chapter Chapter VI in Differential Manifolds, 1985, pp 135-149 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Having acquired the language of vector fields, we return to differential equations and give a generalization of the local existence theorem known as the Frobenius theorem, whose proof will be reduced to the standard case discussed in Chapter IV. We state the theorem in §1. The reader should note that he needs only to know the definition of the bracket of two vector fields in order to understand the proof. It is convenient to insert also a formulation in terms of differential forms, for which the reader needs to know the local definition of the exterior derivative. However, the condition involving differential forms is proved to be equivalent to the vector field condition at the very beginning, and does not reappear explicitly afterwards.

Keywords: Vector Field; Tangent Bundle; Integral Curve; Integral Manifold; Unique Morphism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1985
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4684-0265-0_6

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