ON CLOSED LEAVES OF FOLIATIONS, MULTISECTIONS AND STABLE COMMUTATOR LENGTHS

DOI10.1142/S1793525311000696MaRDI QIDQ3225686zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jonathan Bowden

Publication date 22 March 2012

Published in Journal of Topology and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.4444

zbMATH Keywords

foliationmapping class groupbounded cohomologystable commutator lengthcharacteristic class

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic properties of groups (20F69) Commutator calculus (20F12) Foliations in differential topology; geometric theory (57R30) Topology of vector bundles and fiber bundles (57R22)

Abstract: We give examples of foliations that answer two questions posed by Mitsumatsu and Vogt about the genus minimising properties of closed leaves of 2-dimensional foliations on 4-manifolds. By studying stable commutator lengths in certain stable mapping class groups, we also answer an asymptotic version of another question of theirs concerning bounds on self-intersection numbers of multisections in surface bundles.

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