Classification des feuilletages totalement géodésiques de codimension un (Q790487): Difference between revisions

The aim of this paper is to construct the totally geodesic differentiable foliations of codimension 1. The author constructs some model foliations \((M_ D,F_ D)\), which are torus bundles, and he proves that if m is a compact orientable manifold, and F is a \(C^{\infty}\) foliation of codimension 1 and transversally orientable on M, then M has a Riemannian metric such that the leaves of F are totally geodesic hypersurfaces, iff either F is transversal to a locally free action of \(S^ 1\) on M or M is diffeomorphic to \(M_ D\) and F is conjugate to the corresponding model \(F_ D\). Similarly, if M is noncompact but either F is \(C^{\infty}\) and M has a fundamental group of finite type or F is \(C^{\omega}\), one has a complete metric making F totally geodesic in the same cases as for compact M, and in the case where F is transversal to a trivial fibration of M with fibre \({\mathbb{R}}\), and whose restriction to every leaf is a covering map.