On existence of global attractors of foliations with transverse linear connections (Q1995657): Difference between revisions

Little is known about global structures of foliations of codimension greater than one. In this article, the author studies attractors and global geometry of foliations of general codimension with transverse linear connections. The examples of such foliations include pseudo-Riemannian foliations and transversely similar pseudo-Riemannian foliations. Recall that a non-empty closed saturated subset \(\mathcal{M}\) of a foliated manifold \((M,\mathcal{F})\) is called an attractor of \((M,\mathcal{F})\) if there exists an open saturated neighborhood \(U\) of \(\mathcal{M}\) such that the closure of every leaf in \(U-\mathcal{M}\) contains \(\mathcal{M}\). If we have \(U=M\) in addition, the attractor \(\mathcal{M}\) is called global. The first result (Theorem 2) asserts that if a foliation with transverse linear connections admits an Ehresmann connection and a leaf \(L\) with hyperbolic contracting linear holonomy, then the closure of \(L\) is a global attractor. Moreover, if this \(L\) is proper in addition, then \(L\) is a unique closed leaf. See [\textit{R. A. Blumenthal} and \textit{J. J. Hebda}, Indiana Univ. Math. J. 33, 597--611 (1984; Zbl 0511.57021)] on a Ehresmann connection for foliations. The second part (Theorems 3,4 and 5) includes results on transversely similar Riemannian foliations with Ehresmann connections, which are finer than Theorem 2. Recall that transversely similar Riemannian foliations are foliations whose holonomy pseudogroup conformally acts on transversals with a Riemannian metric. The author proves in Theorem 3 that, if such a foliation admits an Ehresmann connection and a leaf \(L\) whose linear holonomy group is not relatively compact, then the closure of \(L\) is a unique global attractor and a minimal set. Moreover, the foliation is a complete \((\operatorname{Sim}(\mathbb{E}^q),\mathbb{E}^q)\)-foliation and the manifold is covered by the product \(L_{0} \times \mathbb{E}^q\), where \(L_0\) is a covering space of \(L\). The author gives a more detailed description in this result. By using this result, in Theorem 5, the author classifies transversely similar Riemannian foliations into two cases, minimal ones and the other case to which Theorem 3 applies. The third part of results concerns transversely similar Riemannian foliations whose leaves without holonomy have one end. The author proves that if such a foliation is not Riemannian, then it is a \((\operatorname{Sim}(\mathbb{E}^q),\mathbb{E}^q)\)-foliation and admits a unique global attractor. It is the closure of a leaf with holonomy group which is not relatively compact as in Theorem 3.