Classifying foliations

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Authors Steven Hurder

Publication date 18 November 2009

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0804.1240

zbMATH Keywords

classifying spacesergodic theoryFoliationssecondary characteristic classesdifferentiable groupoidssmooth dynamical systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Entropy and other invariants, isomorphism, classification in ergodic theory (37A35) Dynamics induced by group actions other than (mathbb{Z}) and (mathbb{R}), and (mathbb{C}) (37C85) Foliations (differential geometric aspects) (53C12) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Foliations in differential topology; geometric theory (57R30) Classifying spaces for foliations; Gelfand-Fuks cohomology (57R32) Pseudogroups and differentiable groupoids (58H05) Cohomology of classifying spaces for pseudogroup structures (Spencer, Gelfand-Fuks, etc.) (58H10)

Abstract: We give a survey of the approaches to classifying foliations, starting with the Haefliger classifying spaces and the various results and examples about the secondary classes of foliations. Various dynamical properties of foliations are introduced and discussed, including expansion rate, local entropy, and orbit growth rates. This leads to a decomposition of the foliated space into Borel or measurable components with these various dynamical types. The dynamical structure is compared with the classification via secondary classes.

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