On the inner automorphisms of a singular foliation (Q2272969)

A singular foliation in the sense of Androulidakis and Skandalis is an involutive and locally finitely generated submodule \(\mathcal F\) in the module of compactly supported vector fields. The paper under review provides an alternative proof of the fact that the time-1 flow of an element in \(\mathcal F\) preserves \(\mathcal F\), in other words \textit{inner automorphisms are automorphisms}. While the original proof of Androulidakis and Skandalis uses infinite-dimensional arguments, the present paper uses an essentially finite-dimensional argument that consists in solving a linear first-order ODE. As a bonus, a rather explicit formula for the time-1 flow is obtained.