Localization of basic characteristic classes

DOI10.5802/AIF.2857MaRDI QIDQ486764zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dirk Töben

Publication date 16 January 2015

Published in Annales de l’institut Fourier (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.4826

zbMATH Keywords

basic characteristic numberbasic cohomologybasic formscharacteristic formsEuler-Pontryagin ringfoliated bundleinvariants for foliationsKilling foliationsRiemannian foliationsThom isomorphismtransversely oriented foliations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foliations (differential geometric aspects) (53C12) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Foliations in differential topology; geometric theory (57R30)

Abstract: We introduce basic characteristic classes and numbers as new invariants for Riemannian foliations. If the ambient Riemannian manifold M is simply connected (or more generally if the foliation is a transversely orientable Killing foliation), if M is complete and if the space of leaf closures is compact, then the basic characteristic numbers are determined by the infinitesimal dynamical behavior of the foliation at the union of its closed leaves. In fact, they can be computed with an Atiyah-Bott-Berline-Vergne-type integration formula for equivariant basic cohomology.

Review text

The author defines and studies new invariants associated to Riemannian foliations. Consider a Riemannian manifold \(M\) and a transversely oriented Riemannian foliation \(\mathcal F\), of codimension \(q\), on \(M\). The basic Euler-Pontryagin ring \(EP\) is defined as the subring of the basic cohomology ring \(H^*(M,{\mathcal F})\), containing the basic cohomology classes (i.e., those corresponding to the basic forms of the normal bundle of \(\mathcal F\), with respect to a Riemannian basic connection). Let \(p \in EP\); using a transverse version of integration (due to Sergiescu), the author defines the basic characteristic number of \(p\) as \(\int_{\mathcal F} p\), which is a new invariant of \(\mathcal F\). Suppose that \(M\) is connected, complete and simply-connected, \(\mathcal F\) is a Killing foliation and the space of leaf closures is compact. Then the main result states that the basic characteristic numbers are determined by the infinitesimal dynamical behaviour of the foliation at the union of its closed leaves. A key tool in the proof is a basic version of the Thom isomorphism for foliated bundles over \(\mathcal F\).

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