Equifocality of a singular Riemannian foliation


Autoria(s): ALEXANDRINO, Marcos M.; TOEBEN, Dirk
Contribuinte(s)

UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO

Data(s)

19/04/2012

19/04/2012

2008

Resumo

A singular foliation on a complete Riemannian manifold M is said to be Riemannian if each geodesic that is perpendicular to a leaf at one point remains perpendicular to every leaf it meets. We prove that the regular leaves are equifocal, i.e., the end point map of a normal foliated vector field has constant rank. This implies that we can reconstruct the singular foliation by taking all parallel submanifolds of a regular leaf with trivial holonomy. In addition, the end point map of a normal foliated vector field on a leaf with trivial holonomy is a covering map. These results generalize previous results of the authors on singular Riemannian foliations with sections.

Identificador

PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY, v.136, n.9, p.3271-3280, 2008

0002-9939

http://producao.usp.br/handle/BDPI/16696

10.1090/S0002-9939-08-09407-0

http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-08-09407-0

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eng

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AMER MATHEMATICAL SOC

Relação

Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society

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openAccess

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Palavras-Chave #singular Riemannian foliations #equifocal submanifolds #isometric actions #MANIFOLDS #SECTIONS #SPACES #Mathematics, Applied #Mathematics
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original article

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