Characteristic invariants of noncompact Riemannian manifolds

DOI10.1016/0040-9383(84)90012-0MaRDI QIDQ1077015zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Tadeusz Januszkiewicz

Publication date 1984

Published in Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0040-9383(84)90012-0

zbMATH Keywords

average characteristic numberaverage Euler characteristicbounded de Rham complex of a leafChern-Weil theoryclosed at infinityleaves with nonexponential growth

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Review text

The author generalizes the Phillips-Sullivan theory of the average Euler characteristic of 2-dimensional leaves with nonexponential growth. Using metrics on the leaves induced by Riemannian metrics on the ambient, compact manifold M, he defines the bounded de Rham complex of a leaf and the analogue of the Chern-Weil theory in this bounded cohomology. If the leaf L is closed at infinity, a sequence \(\{L_ n\}\) of compact submanifolds can be selected so that \(\lim_{n\to \infty}(vol(\partial L_ n)/vol(L_ n))=0\) (a Plante sequence). If c is a bounded characteristic class of dimension equal to that of L, then \(c_ n=(1/vol(L_ n))\int_{L_ n}c\) defines a sequence which, up to a suitable notion of asymptotic equivalence, depends only on the cohomology class of c and the choice of Plante sequence \(\{L_ n\}\). The average characteristic number associated to c is said to be zero if the sequence \(\{c_ n\}\) is asymptotically equivalent to the zero sequence, for every choice of Plante sequence. Applied to the Euler class, this definition of average Euler characteristic zero significantly strengthens that of Phillips and Sullivan and applies to leaves of arbitrary (even) dimension.

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