A foliation of geodesics is characterized by having no tangent homologies

DOI10.1016/0022-4049(78)90046-4zbMath0402.57015OpenAlexW1976818088MaRDI QIDQ1255712

Dennis Sullivan

Publication date: 1978

Published in: Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-4049(78)90046-4

zbMATH Keywords

FoliationInvariant MeasureGeodenic Flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamics induced by group actions other than (mathbb{Z}) and (mathbb{R}), and (mathbb{C}) (37C85) Foliations in differential topology; geometric theory (57R30) Geodesic flows in symplectic geometry and contact geometry (53D25) Ergodic theory (37A99) Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40)

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Cites Work

• Cycles for the dynamical study of foliated manifolds and complex manifolds
• Asymptotic cycles

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