Foliated and compactly supported isotopies of regular neighborhoods

Abstract: Let

m a t h c a l F

be a foliation with a "singular" submanifold

B

on a smooth manifold

M

and

p : E o B

be a regular neighborhood of

B

in

M

. Under certain "homogeneity" assumptions on

m a t h c a l F

near

B

we prove that every leaf preserving diffeomorphism

h

of

M

is isotopic via a leaf preserving isotopy to a diffeomorphism which coincides with some vector bundle morphism of

E

near

B

. This result is mutually a foliated and compactly supported variant of a well known statement that every diffeomorphism

h

of

m a t h b b R^{n}

fixing the origin is isotopic to the linear isomorphism induced by its Jacobi matrix of

h

at

0

. We also present applications to the computations of the homotopy type of the group of leaf preserving diffeomorphisms of

m a t h c a l F

.

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