# NORMAL BGG SOLUTIONS AND POLYNOMIALS

@article{ap2012NORMALBS,
title={NORMAL BGG SOLUTIONS AND POLYNOMIALS},
author={A. {\vC}ap and A. Gover and M. Hammerl},
journal={International Journal of Mathematics},
year={2012},
volume={23},
pages={1250117}
}
• Published 2012
• Mathematics
• International Journal of Mathematics
First BGG operators are a large class of overdetermined linear differential operators intrinsically associated to a parabolic geometry on a manifold. The corresponding equations include those controlling infinitesimal automorphisms, higher symmetries and many other widely studied PDE of geometric origin. The machinery of BGG sequences also singles out a subclass of solutions called normal solutions. These correspond to parallel tractor fields and hence to (certain) holonomy reductions of the… Expand
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