On the first secondary invariant of Molino's central sheaf

Jesús A. Álvarez López

Annales Polonici Mathematici (1996)

  • Volume: 64, Issue: 3, page 253-265
  • ISSN: 0066-2216

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For a Riemannian foliation on a closed manifold, the first secondary invariant of Molino's central sheaf is an obstruction to tautness. Another obstruction is the class defined by the basic component of the mean curvature with respect to some metric. Both obstructions are proved to be the same up to a constant, and other geometric properties are also proved to be equivalent to tautness.

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Jesús A. Álvarez López. "On the first secondary invariant of Molino's central sheaf." Annales Polonici Mathematici 64.3 (1996): 253-265. <http://eudml.org/doc/269961>.

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