On the diffeomorphism groups of foliated manifolds (Q6147671)

Assume that \(M\) is a manifold and \(\text{Diff}(M)\) is the set of all diffeomorphisms of \(M\) onto itself. We know that \(\text{Diff}(M)\) is a group with respect to the composition and inverting mappings. If \(M\)is a finite-dimensional manifold, then the isometry group \(I(M)\) of the Riemannian manifold \(M\) is a Lie group. Let \(M\)be a smooth connected Riemannian manifold of dimension \(n\), \(0< k <n\). A foliation \(F\) of dimension \(k\) (or a foliation of codimension \(n-k\)) is a partition of \(M\) into linearly connected subsets \(L_\alpha\subset M\) satisfying the following properties: \begin{itemize} \item[(\(F_1\))] \(\bigcup_{\alpha\in B}L_\alpha=M\); \item[(\(F_2\))] if \(\alpha\neq \beta\), then \(L_\alpha\cap L_\beta=\varnothing\) for all \(\alpha, \beta\in B\); \item[(\(F_3\))] fr any point \(p\in M\), there exist a neighborhood \(U\) and a chart \((x^1,\cdots,x^k,y^1,\cdots,y^{n-k})\) such that for each leaf \(L_\alpha\), the linear connected components of the set \(U_p\cap L_\alpha\) are determined by by the equations \(y^1=\text{const},\cdots,y^{n-k}=\text{const}\). \end{itemize} Now, by \((M, F)\) denote a smooth manifold \(M\) of dimension \(n\) on which a smooth \(k\)-dimensional foliation \(F\) is defined, \(0<k<n\). We denote by \(\text{Diff}_F(M)\) the set of all \(C^r\)-diffeomorphisms of the foliated manifold \((M, F)\), where \(r\ge 0\). The set \(\text{Diff}^r(M)\) is a group with respect to the operations of composition and inverting mappings. Note that \(\text{Diff}_F(M) \le \text{Diff}(M)\). In this paper under review, the authors consider a foliated manifold with a certain foliation and examine some subgroups of the group of diffeomorphisms of the foliated manifold.