Singular Riemannian flows and characteristic numbers

DOI10.1007/S10455-018-9628-YMaRDI QIDQ670322zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Igor Prokhorenkov, Ken Richardson

Publication date 18 March 2019

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.04334

zbMATH Keywords

characteristic numberssingular Riemannian foliationtransverse Killing vector field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foliations (differential geometric aspects) (53C12) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Foliations in differential topology; geometric theory (57R30)

Abstract: Let $M$ be an even-dimensional, oriented closed manifold. We show that the restriction of a singular Riemannian flow on $M$ to a small tubular neighborhood of each connected component of its singular stratum is foliated-diffeomorphic to an isometric flow on the same neighborhood. We then prove a formula that computes characteristic numbers of $M$ as the sum of residues associated to the infinitesimal foliation at the components of the singular stratum of the flow.

Review text

This work is concerned with singular Riemannian foliations generated by a single vector field, on an even dimensional, closed and oriented manifold $M$. In other words, the maximal dimension of each leaf is one. The authors first describe the foliation around a singular stratum: It always comes from the action of an orthogonal group. Using this, they generalise the formula given by \textit{P. F. Baum} and \textit{J. Cheeger} [Topology 8, 173--193 (1969; Zbl 0179.28802)] for the characteristic numbers of the manifold $M$.

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