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Foliations II

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Alberto Candel, California State University, Northridge, CA and Lawrence Conlon, Washington University, St. Louis, MO

Publication: Graduate Studies in Mathematics
Publication Year: 2003; Volume 60
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-0881-8 (print); 978-1-4704-1795-6 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/gsm/060
MathSciNet review: MR1994394
MSC: Primary 57R30; Secondary 37C85, 58J35

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Part 1: Analysis and geometry on foliated spaces

• Foreword to part 1
• Chapter 1. The $C^*$-algebra of a foliated space
• Chapter 2. Harmonic measures for foliated spaces
• Chapter 3. Generic leaves

Part 2: Characteristic classes and foliations

• Foreword to part 2
• Chapter 4. The Euler class of circle bundles
• Chapter 5. The Chern-Weil construction
• Chapter 6. Characteristic classes and integrability
• Chapter 7. The Godbillon-Vey classes

Part 3: Foliated 3-manifolds

• Foreword to part 3
• Chapter 8. Constructing foliations
• Chapter 9. Reebless foliations
• Chapter 10. Foliations and the Thurston norm
• Chapter 11. Disk decomposition and foliations of link complements

Appendices

• Appendix A. $C^*$-Algebras
• Appendix B. Riemannian geometry and heat diffusion
• Appendix C. Brownian motion
• Appendix D. Planar foliations