Leaf closures of Riemannian foliations: a survey on topological and geometric aspects of Killing foliations

DOI10.1016/J.EXMATH.2021.11.002zbMATH Open1494.53026arXiv2006.03164OpenAlexW3216173025WikidataQ115353667 ScholiaQ115353667MaRDI QIDQ2144307FDOQ2144307

Authors: Marcos M. Alexandrino, Francisco C. Caramello 

Publication date: 1 June 2022

Published in: Expositiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A smooth foliation is Riemannian when its leaves are locally equidistant. The closures of the leaves of a Riemannian foliation on a simply connected manifold, or more generally of a Killing foliation, are described by flows of transverse Killing vector fields. This offers significant technical advantages in the study of this class of foliations, which nonetheless includes other important classes, such as those given by the orbits of isometric Lie group actions. Aiming at a broad audience, in this survey we introduce Killing foliations from the very basics, starting with a brief revision of the main objects appearing in this theory, such as pseudogroups, sheaves, holonomy and basic cohomology. We then review Molino's structural theory for Riemannian foliations and present its transverse counterpart in the theory of complete pseudogroups of isometries, emphasizing the connections between these topics. We also survey some classical results and recent developments in the theory of Killing foliations. Finally, we review some topics in the theory of singular Riemannian foliations and discuss singular Killing foliations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.03164

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zbMATH Keywords

Riemannian foliationsKilling foliationssingular Riemannian foliationsisometry pseudogroupsMolino conjecturesingular Killing foliations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to differential geometry (53-02) Foliations (differential geometric aspects) (53C12)

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