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A net on a manifold is a family of complementary foliations. Starting with the classical decomposition theorem of deRham for Riemannian manifolds, the authors study nets and net morphisms between manifolds. They give a decomposition criterion for a manifold which is equipped with a linear connection. The notion of warped product nets (w.p.n.) is defined. A section is devoted to show that w.p.n. are rigid, and to Nölker's classification of isometries. Let \(M\), \(N\) be \({\mathcal C}^{\infty}\)-manifolds equipped with nets \({\mathcal E}=(E_i)_{i=\overline{1,k}}\), \({\mathcal F}=(F_i)_{i=\overline{1,k}}\), respectively. Let \(f:M\rightarrow N\) be a \({\mathcal C}^{\infty}\)-map where \(M\) and \(N\) are equipped with linear connections \({\nabla}^M\), and \({\nabla}^N\). The map \(f\) satisfies condition \((D)\) iff the second fundamental form \(h\) of \(f\) satisfies \(h|_{E_i\times_M E_j}\equiv 0\), \(i\neq j\); \(f\) satisfies condition \((I)\) iff \(f(L_i^{\mathcal E}(p))\subset L_i^{\mathcal F}(f(p))\), \(i=\overline{1,k}\), \(p\in M\) and \(L_i^{\mathcal E}(p)\) is the leaf manifold of \(E_i\) through \(p\). Theorem. ``Let \(M\) and \(N\) be pseudo Riemannian manifolds, equipped with w.p.n. \({\mathcal E}=(E_i)_{i=\overline{0,k}}\), and \({\mathcal F}=(F_i)_{i=\overline{0,k}}\) respectively. We suppose that the netted manifold \((M,{\mathcal E})\) is connected and globally decomposable. Furthermore, let \(f:M\rightarrow N\) be an isometric immersion satisfying the conditions \((D)\) and \((I)\) with respect to the Levi-Civita connections of \(M\) and \(N\), the given nets and some point \(p\in M\). Then, \(f\) is a pseudo Riemannian net morphism, and therefore it is locally decomposable''. Some examples are given.