Singular Riemannian foliations with sections, transnormal maps and basic forms

DOI10.1007/S10455-006-9052-6MaRDI QIDQ2385169zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Marcos M. Alexandrino, Claudio Gorodski

Publication date 11 October 2007

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0608069

zbMATH Keywords

basic formbasic functionequifocal submanifoldisoparametric submanifoldpolar actionpseudogroupsingular Riemannian foliation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foliations (differential geometric aspects) (53C12) Foliations in differential topology; geometric theory (57R30)

Abstract: A singular riemannian foliation F on a complete riemannian manifold M is said to admit sections if each regular point of M is contained in a complete totally geodesic immersed submanifold (a section) that meets every leaf of F orthogonally and whose dimension is the codimension of the regular leaves of F. We prove that the algebra of basic forms of M relative to F is isomorphic to the algebra of those differential forms on a section that are invariant under the generalized Weyl pseudogroup of this section. This extends a result of Michor for polar actions. It follows from this result that the algebra of basic function is finitely generated if the sections are compact. We also prove that the leaves of F coincide with the level sets of a transnormal map (generalization of isoparametric map) if M is simply connected, the sections are flat and the leaves of F are compact. This result extends previous results due to Carter and West, Terng, and Heintze, Liu and Olmos.

Review text

Singular Riemannian foliations which admit transversal complete immersed manifolds, that meet all leaves orthogonally are called singular Riemannian foliations with sections. The main results of the present paper are the following two theorems: Let \(\mathcal{F}\) be a singular Riemannian foliation with sections on a complete simply connected Riemannian manifold \(M\). Assume that the leaves of \(\mathcal{F}\) are compact and \(\mathcal{F}\) admits a flat section of dimension \(n\). Then the leaves of \(\mathcal{F}\) are given by the level sets of a transnormal map \(F:M\to\mathbb{R}^n\). Let \(\mathcal{F}\) be a singular Riemannian foliation with sections on a complete Riemannian manifold \(M\), and let \(\Sigma\) be a section of \(\mathcal{F}\). Then the immersion of \(\Sigma\) into \(M\) induces an isomorphism between the algebra of basic differential forms on \(M\) relative to \(\mathcal{F}\) and the algebra of differential forms on \(\Sigma\) which are invariant under the generalized Weyl pseudogroup of \(\Sigma\).

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