Homotopy classification of contact foliations on open contact manifolds

DOI10.1007/S12044-018-0436-XMaRDI QIDQ1630262zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors M. Datta, Sauvik Mukherjee

Publication date 7 December 2018

Published in Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences. Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.4637

zbMATH Keywords

\(h\)-principlecontact foliationscontact manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foliations (differential geometric aspects) (53C12) Symplectic geometry, contact geometry (53D99) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17) Foliations in differential topology; geometric theory (57R30) Classifying spaces for foliations; Gelfand-Fuks cohomology (57R32)

Abstract: We give a complete classification of foliations on open contact manifolds whose leaves are contact submanifolds of the ambient manifold. The results are analogues of Haefliger's classification of foliations on open manifold.

Review text

The following two results are presented: Theorem 1. Let \((M,\alpha)\) be an open contact manifold and \((N,F_N)\) a foliated manifold. If the codimension of \(F_N\) is even and is strictly less than the dimension of \(M\), then \[\pi \circ d: Tr_{\alpha}(M,F_n)\to \varepsilon_\alpha(TM,\nu F_N)\] is a weak homotopy equivalence. Theorem 2. The integrable homotopy classes of codimension-\(2g\) contact foliations on \(M\) subordinate to \(\alpha\) are in one-to-one correspondence with the homotopy classes of bundle endomorphisms \((F,f): TM\to\nu\Omega_{2_q}\) for which \(\operatorname{Ker}F\cap \operatorname{Ker}\alpha\) is a symplectic subbundle of \(\xi\). The first result is an analogue of the Phillips' theorem on homotopy classification of transversal maps to foliations; the second theorem is an analogue of Haefliger's classification of foliations on open manifolds.

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