Minimizability of developable Riemannian foliations

DOI10.1007/S10455-010-9203-7MaRDI QIDQ1959092zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Hiraku Nozawa

Publication date 6 October 2010

Published in Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.4508

zbMATH Keywords

developable Riemannian foliationsminimizabilitysecondary characteristic classes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foliations (differential geometric aspects) (53C12) Foliations in differential topology; geometric theory (57R30) Classifying spaces for foliations; Gelfand-Fuks cohomology (57R32)

Abstract: Let (M,F) be a closed manifold with a Riemannian foliation. We show that the secondary characteristic classes of the Molino's commuting sheaf of (M,F) vanish if (M,F) is developable and the fundamental group of M is of polynomial growth. By theorems of '{A}lvarez L'{o}pez, our result implies that (M,F) is minimizable under the same conditions. As a corollary, we show that (M,F) is minimizable if F is of codimension 2 and the fundamental group of M is of polynomial growth.

Review text

The author studies the minimizability of developable Riemannian foliations. The foliated manifold \((M,{\mathcal F})\) is developable if there exists a covering space \(\widetilde M@>\pi>>M\) such that the leaves of \(\pi^*{\mathcal F}\) are ``fibers of a submersion. A foliated manifold \((M,{\mathcal F})\) is minimizable if there exists a Riemannian metric \(g\) on \(M\) such that every leaf \(L\in{\mathcal F}\) is a minimal submanifold of \((M,g)\). The author proves several results related to: unipatency of the holonomy homomorphism of Molino's commuting sheaves, vanishing of secondary characteristic classes of flat vector bundles with unipotent holonomy homomorphisms, Riemannian foliations of codimension 2 on fiber bundles over \(S^1\). The main results of this work are: Theorem 1: The secondary characteristic classes of Molino's commuting sheaf of \((M,{\mathcal F})\) vanish if \({\mathcal F}\) is deveopable and \(\pi_1M\) has polynomial growth. Theorem 2: A transversely parallelizable foliation of codimension \(q\leq 3\) on a closed manifold with fundamental group of polynomial growth is minimizable. Some important particular cases (examples) are studied, too.

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