On polar foliations and the fundamental group (Q1758349)

The paper investigates the relation between the fundamental group of a complete Riemannian manifold \(M\) and the quotient between the Weyl group anf reflection group of a polar action on \(M\), as well as the relation between the fundamental group of \(M\) and the quotient between the lifted Weyl group and lifted reflection group. Namely, the first main result as follows: if \(\mathcal{F}\) is a polar foliation on a complete Riemannian \(M\), \(\Sigma\) is a section, \(W\) is the Weyl group of \(\Sigma\) and \(\Gamma\) is the reflection group of \(\Sigma\), then there exists a surjective homomorphism from \(\pi_{1}(M)\) onto \(W/{\Gamma}\) (Theorem 1.1). The second result of the paper as follows: for any polar foliation on a complete Riemannian \(M\), there exists a surjective homomorphism from the fundamental group of \(M\) onto the quotient between the lifted Weyl group and lifted reflection group (Theorem 1.2). The corollaries of these results are that, for any polar foliation on a simply complete Riemannian manifold, each regular leaf has trivial holonomy and every leaf is closed and embedded (see Corollaries 1.3 and 1.4).