Continuity of the Álvarez class under deformations

DOI10.1515/CRELLE.2011.181zbMATH Open1269.57011arXiv1009.1098MaRDI QIDQ4899183FDOQ4899183

Authors: Hiraku Nozawa 

Publication date: 7 January 2013

Published in: Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik (Crelles Journal) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A foliated manifold (M,F) is minimizable if there exists a Riemannian metric g on M such that every leaf of F is a minimal submanifold of (M,g). Alvarez Lopez defined a cohomology class of degree 1 called the Alvarez class of (M,F) whose triviality characterizes the minimizability of (M,F), when M is closed and F is Riemannian. In this paper, we show that the family of the Alvarez classes of a smooth family of Riemannian foliations is continuous with respect to the parameter. Since the Alvarez class has algebraic rigidity under certain topological conditions on (M,F) as the author showed in arXiv:0909.1125, we show that the minimizability of Riemannian foliations is invariant under deformation under the same topological conditions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.1098

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zbMATH Keywords

Riemannian foliationminimizable foliationÁlvarez classdeformation of Riemannian foliations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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