Structure of graphs of suspended foliations (Q2122518)

In this paper, the authors study suspended foliations with an Ehresmann connection and the structure of the graphs of these foliations. In [Ann. Sc. Norm. Super. Pisa, Sci. Fis. Mat., III. Ser. 16, 367--397 (1962; Zbl 0122.40702)], the notion of a suspended foliation was introduced by \textit{A. Haefliger}. In 1983, Ehresmann introduced the notion of a holonomy groupoid. The equivalent construction, i.e. the notion of the graph of a foliation, was introduced by \textit{H. E. Winkelnkemper} [Ann. Global Anal. Geom. 1, No. 3, 51--75 (1983; Zbl 0526.53039)] and this concept quickly became one of the main constructions in the theory of foliations. The purpose of the paper is to study the structure of the graphs of suspended foliations. The main results of the paper are three theorems which are stated in Section 1. The first result is Theorem 1.1 in which the authors give a necessary and sufficient condition for a foliation to be a suspended one. As a direct consequence of this theorem, the suspended foliations have the natural integrable Ehresmann connection. The second result is Theorem 1.2 and it states that if a given foliation is suspended then the induced foliation on the graph of the original one is also suspended; moreover, the structure group and global holonomy group of these foliations coincide. The last result of the paper is Theorem 1.4 in which they give a detailed description of the structure of graphs of suspended foliations and their induced foliations.