Let be a manifold and vector fields on . The condition
where are functions, implies that the distribution generated by them is involutive. Frobenius theorem says that there exist integral manifolds.
But there is a more restricted condition, constant coefficients:
where . This means that they constitute a finite dimensional Lie subalgebra of (with (1) they constitute a possibly infinite dimensional one). In this case there exists a finite dimensional Lie group acting on such that the integral manifolds of the distribution are the orbits of !!!
And even more, if every
then the group is isomorphic to the translations .