Holonomy transformations for singular foliations

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Abstract: In order to understand the linearization problem around a leaf of a singular foliation, we extend the familiar holonomy map from the case of regular foliations to the case of singular foliations. To this aim we introduce the notion of holonomy transformation. Unlike the regular case, holonomy transformations can not be attached to classes of paths in the foliation, but rather to elements of the holonomy groupoid of the singular foliation. This assignment is injective. Holonomy transformations allow us to link the linearization problem with the compactness of the isotropy group of the holonomy groupoid, as well as with the linearization problem for proper Lie groupoids.


The paper focuses on the study of the so called ``holonomy transformations for singular foliations. Recall that, for a regular foliation \((M, F)\) equipped with a transversal structure, the holonomy of \((M, F)\) at a point \(x\) of the foliated \(M\) is realized by a map \(h_{x}: \pi_{1}(L) \to \mathrm{GermDiff}(S)\), where \(L\) is the leaf containing \(x\), \(S\) is a transversal slice at \(x\) and \(\mathrm{GermDiff}(S)\) is the space of germs of local diffeomorphisms of \(S\). The paper extends the notion of holonomy from the regular case to the singular one. Main tools of the authors are the construction of the holonomy groupoid for any singular foliation and the notion of bi-submersion which are given by the first author and \textit{G. Skandalis} in [J. Reine Angew. Math. 626, 1--37 (2009; Zbl 1161.53020)]. Namely, instead of the familiar holonomy map, the authors introduce the notion of holonomy transformation and show how to associate holonomy transformations to a singular foliation. The paper also gives further applications for singular Riemannian foliations in Molino's sense and some deformations of singular foliations.



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