Foliations of Codimension 2 With All Leaves Compact.
In this paper we give a geometric characterization of the 2-dimensional foliations on compact orientable 3-manifolds defined by a locally free smooth action of .
Let be a foliation of the punctured plane . Any non-compact leaf of has two ends, which we call leaf-ends. The set of leaf-ends which converge to the origin has a natural cyclic order. In the case is infinite, we show that the cyclicly ordered set , obtained by identifying neighbors in and filling in the holes according to the Dedeking process, is equivalent to a circle. We show that the set has a natural topology, and it is homeomorphic to with respect to this topology.
We prove that a foliation on with hyperbolic singularities and with “many" parabolic leaves (i.e. leaves without Green functions) is in fact a linear foliation. This is done in two steps: first we prove that there exists an algebraic leaf, using the technique of harmonic measures, then we show that the holonomy of this leaf is linearizable, from which the result follows easily.
The notion of the “volume" of a leaf in a foliated space is defined. If is a compact leaf, then any leaf entering a small neighbourhood of either has a very large volume, or a volume which is approximatively an integral multiple of the volume of . If all leaves are compact there are three related objects to study. Firstly the topology of the quotient space obtained by identifying each leaf to a point ; secondly the holonomy of a leaf ; and thirdly whether the leaves have a locally bounded volume....
Let be a smooth foliation with complex leaves and let be the sheaf of germs of smooth functions, holomorphic along the leaves. We study the ringed space . In particular we concentrate on the following two themes: function theory for the algebra and cohomology with values in .
Let be a compact Lie group acting in a Hamiltonian way on a symplectic manifold which is pre-quantized by a Kostant-Souriau line bundle. We suppose here that the moment map is proper so that the reduced space is compact for all . Then, we can define the “formal geometric quantization” of asThe aim of this article is to study the functorial properties of the assignment .
We review topological properties of Kähler and symplectic manifolds, and of their odd-dimensional counterparts, coKähler and cosymplectic manifolds. We focus on formality, Lefschetz property and parity of Betti numbers, also distinguishing the simply-connected case (in the Kähler/symplectic situation) and the b1 = 1 case (in the coKähler/cosymplectic situation).