Compact foliations with finite transverse LS category

DOI10.2969/JMSJ/76837683MaRDI QIDQ4961307zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Paweł Walczak, Steven Hurder

Publication date 26 October 2018

Published in Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.03022

zbMATH Keywords

compact foliationEpstein filtrationtransverse Lusternik-Schnirelmann category

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foliations (differential geometric aspects) (53C12) Lyusternik-Shnirel'man category of a space, topological complexity à la Farber, topological robotics (topological aspects) (55M30) Foliations in differential topology; geometric theory (57R30) Compact Lie groups of differentiable transformations (57S15)

Abstract: We prove that if F is a foliation of a compact manifold M with all leaves compact submanifolds, and the transverse saturated category of F is finite, then the leaf space M/F is compact Hausdorff. The proof is surprisingly delicate, and is based on some new observations about the geometry of compact foliations. Colman proved in her 1998 doctoral thesis that the transverse saturated category of a compact Hausdorff foliation is always finite, so we obtain a new characterization of the compact Hausdorff foliations among the compact foliations as those with finite transverse saturated category.

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