Topological Molino's theory (Q906123)

The aim of this paper is to present an ample and interesting study of Riemannian foliations of compact equicontinuous foliated spaces for the case where the leaves are dense (Molino's sense). The work's contents: equicontinuous pseudogroups, equicontinuous foliated spaces, growth of equicontinuous pseudogroups and foliated spaces. The authors give an application relating the structural local group to the growth of the leaves. A result is the Theorem: ``Let \(X\equiv(X,\mathcal F)\) be a compact Polish foliated space, and \(H\) its holonomy pseudogroup. Suppose hat \(X\) is minimal and equicontinous, and \(\overline H\) is strongly quasianalytic. Then there is a compact Polish minimal foliated space \(\widehat X_0\equiv\langle\widehat X_0,\widehat{\mathcal{F}_0}\rangle\), an open continuous foliated map \(\widehat\pi_0:\widehat X_0\to X\), and a locally compact Polish local group \(G\) such that \(\widehat X_0\) is a \(G\)-foliated space, the fibers of \(\widehat\pi_0\) are homeomorphic to each other, and the restrictions of \(\widehat\pi_0\) to the leaves of \(\widehat{\mathcal F_0}\) are the holonomy covers of the leaves of \(\mathcal F\).'' The authors construct certain interesting examples. They present some open problems. The exposition is clear.