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Equifocality of a singular Riemannian foliation
Author(s):
Marcos
M.
Alexandrino;
Dirk
Töben
Journal:
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc.
136
(2008),
3271-3280.
MSC (2000):
Primary 53C12;
Secondary 57R30
Posted:
April 23, 2008
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Abstract:
A singular foliation on a complete Riemannian manifold 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.
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Marcos
M.
Alexandrino
Affiliation:
Instituto de Matemática e Estatística, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão 1010,05508 090 São Paulo, Brazil
Email:
marcosmalex@yahoo.de
Dirk
Töben
Affiliation:
Mathematisches Institut, Universität zu Köln, Weyertal 86-90, 50931 Köln, Germany
Email:
dtoeben@math.uni-koeln.de
DOI:
10.1090/S0002-9939-08-09407-0
PII:
S 0002-9939(08)09407-0
Keywords:
Singular Riemannian foliations,
equifocal submanifolds,
isometric actions
Received by editor(s):
May 25, 2007
Posted:
April 23, 2008
Additional Notes:
The first author was supported by CNPq and partially supported by FAPESP
Communicated by:
Jon G. Wolfson
Copyright of article:
Copyright
2008,
American Mathematical Society
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