“…We remark here that the strong and weak accessibility Lie rank conditions possess an easy and nice interpretation within the framework of the differential geometry of jets and prolongations of infinite order, which is becoming a mainstay in some parts of mathematics and physics (see, e.g., [3,4,32,38,41,49,66,67,69] and the references therein). Motivated by the study of differential flatness [25], i.e., by dynamic feedback linearizabilty, this infinite-dimensional geometry is now being developed in nonlinear control (cf.…”