Singular Riemannian foliations and their quadratic basic polynomials (Q2175529)

The authors present a new relation between the invariant theory of infinitesimal singular Riemannian foliations and Jordan algebras. This, together with an inhomogeneous version of Weyl's First Fundamental Theorems, provides a characterization of the recently discovered Clifford foliations in terms of basic polynomials. The article is organized as follows. Section 2 contains necessary facts about the algebra of basic polynomials, including a description of degree-one invariants. Section 3 deals with Jordan algebras, which are used in proofs of Theorems A and B. Section 4 discusses properties of invariant subspaces and isotypical components for infinitesimal foliations, applying in the proof of Theorem D. Section 5 presents some symmetries of an infinitesimal foliation, used in the proof of Theorem E. Section 6 is devoted to proving Theorem F. Section 7 recalls Weyl's First Fundamental Theorems and extends them to the case of Clifford foliations, used in the proof of Theorem C. Appendices A and B contain the basic facts about Jordan algebras and describe the set of all foliated linear maps between possibly different infinitesimal foliations as an algebraic variety.