Localization of Chern-Simons type invariants of Riemannian foliations (Q1686406)

Given a torus action on an oriented compact manifold, the Atiyah-Bott-Berline-Vergne localization formula allows one to calculate the integral of certain top cohomology classes like characteristic classes, as a related integral over the fixed point set. This is a generalization of an old result by Bott: Given an oriented compact Riemannian manifold \(M\) with a Killing vector field \(X\), the Pontryagin numbers of \(M\) can be computed in terms of the zero set of \(X\). In this interesting paper, the authors prove a foliated version of the ABBV formula; for certain Riemannian foliations and localized Chern-Simons type invariants localized to the union of closed leaves. They also apply the formula to compute the volume of K-contact manifolds and some secondary characteristic numbers of Riemannian foliations.