Cohomological localization for transverse Lie algebra actions on Riemannian foliations (Q2207481): Difference between revisions

\textit{O. Goertsches}, \textit{H. Nozawa} and \textit{D. Töben} [Isr. J. Math. 222, No. 2, 867--920 (2017; Zbl 1403.53028)] extended for the equivariant basic cohomology of Riemannian foliations certain localization formulas of Atiyah, Bott, Berline and Vergne, originally proved for torus actions, which allow to reduce the computation of some cohomology classes to the fixed point set. More precisely, Goertsches, Nozawa and Töben have considered the case of Killing foliations, defined by the global triviality of their Molino's central sheaf. The present paper extends one step further those localization results by considering a Riemannian foliation \((M,\mathcal F)\) with an infinitesimal transverse action of a Lie algebra \(\mathfrak g\). This is a Lie algebra homomorphism of \(\mathfrak g\) to the Lie algebra \(\mathfrak X(M,\mathcal F)\) of transverse vector fields; i.e., the infinitesimal transformations of \((M,\mathcal F)\) modulo vector fields tangent to the leaves. This is not an infinitesimal action in the usual sense, it is a version of infinitesimal action modulo leaf directions. However the authors introduce the right ingredients to deal with this concept and end up with the generalizations of the localization results; namely, they can pass to a transverse action of a Lie algebroid, which can be integrated to define a transverse action of a Lie groupoid. These constructions have their own interest and give another point of view of Molino's theorems on Riemannian foliations.