Singular Riemannian foliations with sections, transnormal maps and basic forms (Q2385169)

Singular Riemannian foliations which admit transversal complete immersed manifolds, that meet all leaves orthogonally are called singular Riemannian foliations with sections. The main results of the present paper are the following two theorems: Let \(\mathcal{F}\) be a singular Riemannian foliation with sections on a complete simply connected Riemannian manifold \(M\). Assume that the leaves of \(\mathcal{F}\) are compact and \(\mathcal{F}\) admits a flat section of dimension \(n\). Then the leaves of \(\mathcal{F}\) are given by the level sets of a transnormal map \(F:M\to\mathbb{R}^n\). Let \(\mathcal{F}\) be a singular Riemannian foliation with sections on a complete Riemannian manifold \(M\), and let \(\Sigma\) be a section of \(\mathcal{F}\). Then the immersion of \(\Sigma\) into \(M\) induces an isomorphism between the algebra of basic differential forms on \(M\) relative to \(\mathcal{F}\) and the algebra of differential forms on \(\Sigma\) which are invariant under the generalized Weyl pseudogroup of \(\Sigma\).